"bribery"

Rumours that several small parties are accepting bribes from political big shots in exchange for their support in the upcoming censure debate are spreading through the media. However, this is merely business as usual for Thai politics.

Two former prosecutors in Phuket were handed bail after they were charged and taken to court for allegedly demanding THB10 million from a foreign company in exchange for not pursuing a case of national park encroachment.

An immigration official has been transferred from his post after allegedly demanding a monthly fee from an immigrant in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district.

A sacked police station chief in Nakhon Sawan province has denied seeking bribes from drug suspects and said the custodial death of a suspect was caused by a new interrogation technique gone wrong.

A top police officer in Nakhon Sawan received transfer orders on Sunday for allegedly taking a 2-million-baht bribe from a couple of drug suspects before killing one of them.

The chief of Mukdahan’s Natural Resources and Environment Office was caught on Thursday demanding a bribe of Bt2 million for the return of a smuggled Siam rosewood cache, say police.

South Korean prosecutors requested a nine-year prison term for Samsung Electronics Co.'s Jay Y. Lee, seeking to put the heir apparent back in jail in a bribery case that rocked the nation and ignited a backlash against its most powerful conglomerates.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the jail sentences handed to the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Juthamas Siriwan, and her daughter Jittisopha, while ruling on their appeal.

Eight policemen from Nong Chok police station in Phetchaburi have been dismissed after a scandalous video showed them demanding thousands of baht from a woman or they would send her for a drug test.

Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasutra was sentenced to one year in jail on Tuesday after being found guilty of trying to bribe officials while being arrested at the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi early last year.

A COURT will on Tuesday rule on the bribery allegation against Thailand’s construction tycoon Premchai Karnasutra, who has drawn intense negative publicity for allegedly hunting a black leopard.

An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s prison sentence of 50 years on the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Juthamas Siriwan, for accepting Bt62 million in bribes from an American couple seeking the rights to host a Bangkok film festival between 2002 and 2007.