Banyin Tangpakorn killed building tycoon from whom he had stolen stocks in an accident in 2015?
PUBLISHED: 27 Jun 2024 at 16: 29
Former assistant trading secretary Banyin Tangpakorn was sentenced to death for the 2015 death of building tycoon Chuwong Sae Tang.
The judge of primary instance’s decision from August 2022 and the court of first instance‘s decision from January 2021 were agreed upon by the court’s announcement at the Phra Khanong Criminal Court on Thursday.
Banyin, 59, was convicted of conspiring to kill Chuwong, 50, and concealing the offense for his own vested attention and to evade prosecution. The court determined that Chuwong’s automobile crash was not an injury but rather was intended to look one.
Former police lieutenant-colonel and Nakhon Sawan MP, Banyin, was assistant commerce secretary in the Samak Sundaravej authorities in 2008. He is likewise serving a life sentence for the death of a judge who oversaw a case involving Chuwong’s death.
After they played golf and dined along in Bangkok on June 26, 2015, Banyin admitted to telling authorities that Chuwong was a passenger in the car he was driving. He claimed his vehicle crashed into a tree, killing Chuwong, who was sitting in the front. He insisted the collision was an accident.
But, forensic evidence suggested Chuwong had been murdered, pointing to Banyin having masterminded the violence.
He was alleged to have murdered the business in exchange for a significant share of the deceased man’s business. Two girls with close ties to him had taken them from him, who had illegally transferred them to him.
In an effort to get her to lose the charge against him in the share exchange case, Banyin and five people were imprisoned in December 2020 for the violence and murder of the top judge’s brother.
Wirachai Sakuntaprasoet, an elder brother of Bangkok South Criminal Court judge Phanida Sakuntaprasoet, was kidnapped by four people outside the courtroom on Feb 4, 2020. The 70-year-old was afterward killed, burned, and thrown into the Chao Phraya River in Nakhon Sawan.
According to the authorities, Banyin was one of the criminals who drove Wirachai from Bangkok to a bush in Khao Bai Mai in Nakhon Sawan.
The Lexus auto where Chuwong Sae Tang was found deceased in the backseat in 2015 was Lexus. ( Photo: Somchai Poomlard )