Celebrity lawyer and wife remanded in custody
Lawyer disputes that his customers allegedly aimed to evade charges of fraud and money laundering.
After the Criminal Court refused to grant Ms. Patthitta’s loan request, the famous lawyer Sittra Biabungkerd and his wife Patthitta Biabungkerd were placed back in prison on fraud and money laundering fees. Mr. Sittra did not request parole.
Ms. Patthitta declared she would consent to wear an electronic monitoring ( EM) device and placed 500, 000 baht as a guarantee.
Officers at the hearing on Friday, yet, requested parole and ordered their detention while ten additional witnesses were being interrogated.
Under the rules, suspects in a legal case may be detained for a maximum of seven 12-day times, or 84 days in total, before officers had press charges.
Mr. Sittra’s woman was taken to the Central Women’s Correctional Institution, while his wife was taken to the Bangkok Remand Prison.
Saiyud Pengboonchu, the child’s lawyer, told reporters before that he would not submit a loan software for Mr Sittra due to the serious nature of the case, which involves considerable damages.
According to the arrest warrant, releasing the believe may increase the likelihood of data tampering and flight.
Mr. Saiyud, who disputed reports that the pair appeared to be trying to travel to Cambodia when they were stopped on a highway in Chachoengsao on Thursday, claimed that Mr. Sittra, alias” Lawyer Tam,” had no intention of escape. Their attorney claims that they were actually on their way to earn money at a provincial church.
According to Mr. Saiyud, Mr. Sittra had filed a lawsuit and waited for the police to apprehend him at his home for five days before the arrests because he did n’t want to be detained while wearing pyjamas like someone else.
Another well-known people figure, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, was the subject of the mention when police picked him up at his home to look into alleged links to online gaming.  ,
After he and his family were stopped on a bridge in Chachoengsao on Thursday night, Sittra Biabungkerd reads an arrest warrant onto his cellular phone. ( Police photo )
Mr Sittra, 44, and Ms Patthitta, 41, were stopped by Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ) officers while they were travelling in their Porsche Cayenne on a section of the Kabin Buri-Chachoengsao Highway in Phanom Sarakham district of Chachoengsao, heading away from Bangkok, on Thursday morning.
The couple’s imprisonment occurred the same day that the fugitive judge issued permits for their arrest.
Fraud and money-laundering allegations were brought against Mr. Sittra. His family faces charges of laundering money. The pair have denied the claims.
Authorities seizes a Porsche registered in Bangkok with the license disk Thor Kor 999. They found go bags, linen and a record of documents in.
In the evening, officers detained Mr. Sittra and conducted a search of his home in Bangkok’s Taling Chan region, searching his baggies, and conducted examinations of numerous jewelry and luxury bags.
Mr. Saiyud claimed that while his wife was stressed out and facing fees and being imprisoned, Mr. Sittra showed no signs of stress.
In a situation involving a Thai woman who claimed he had duped her for a claimed online lottery job, Mr. Sittra showed up at the CSD office on Tuesday to ask the police for problem him. The lady gave the money to the lawyer as a present, the lawyer claimed.
The 58-year-old person, Jatuporn” Madame Oy” Ubonlert, had filed her problem with officers and had been questioned by prosecutors many days before the arrest warrant was issued.
The woman from Nakhon Ratchasima apparently lives in France with her French father, where she apparently won a multibillion dollar jackpot prize.
On Friday, Somchart Phinit-aksorn, the attorney for Ms Jatuporn, arrived at the Criminal Court at 10.30am to send a request to resist bail for Mr Sittra and his family.
After Mr. Sittra’s arrest, Mr. Somchart claimed that his customer” Madame Oy” appeared uninterested.
On Thursday evening, police research Sittra Biabungkerd’s home in Bangkok’s Taling Chan area and enlist dozens of people to examine and examine dozens of items. ( Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham )