AMLO official is acquitted
A Chon Buri court yesterday acquitted a senior Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) official of unauthorised seizure of assets belonging to a daughter of fugitive Somchai Kunplome.
Somchai, an influential local figure, has been on the run since the Supreme Court last year upheld a conviction for corruption involving a landfill in Bang Lamung. Somchai is better known as Kamnan Poh. The Chon Buri District Court ruled that an AMLO deputy secretary-general Police Colonel Yutthabool Disamarn had authority to sign a warrant on behalf of his superior to freeze the assets of complainant Jiraphon Kunplome. Jiraphon's lawyer Chamnarn Chadit said he would appeal the ruling.
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