Man denies link to explosives in room
Somphong In-ngarm turns himself in to police yesterday following the discovery of explosives in his apartment last week.
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A man accused of possessing explosives was released without bail yesterday after turning himself in to police and being questioned for three hours.
Somphong In-ngarm, a former bodyguard with the People's Alliance for Democracy, said he did not know how the explosives found in his Bangkok flat got there, and told police he was to enter the monkhood on July 1. Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) commander Lt-General Adisorn Nonsee said Somphong had been charged with possessing explosives without permission and that his information was useful to investigators on the case. Somphong met police at 10am with his uncle, Phian Yongnoo, a core PAD member and head of a labour union, at the MPB compound. He was immediately questioned by senior investigators for three hours behind closed doors. Somphong said he had not entered his room at Development Mental Path building in Soi Charan Sanitwong 53 for five months. "I have nothing to do with the explosives found and have no idea how they came to be stored in the room," he said. Somphong said he had not fled but had stayed at the home of the secretary-general of the Metropolitan Electricity Authority's labour union for a few days. Phian said later that his nephew's ordination at a temple in Phatthalung had been planned long before the explosives were found in Somphong's flat. MPB deputy chief Maj-General Jate Mongkholhatthee said Somphong's denial would not affect police investigation of the case. He refused to reveal details of the evidence collected so far and the likely outcome of the case.
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