The Bhumjaitjhai group was imprisoned for permitting different MPs to use their digital voting cards.
PUBLISHED: 6 Dec 2024 at 20: 22
According to the Department of Corrections, three previous Bhumjaithai Party MPs who have been imprisoned for social offences may be released on parole on Sunday.
The three are Natee Ratchakitprakarn, a former listing MP and the family of Labour Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Chalong Thoetwiraphong, a previous Phatthalung Constituency 2 MP, and Phumsit Khongmi, a former Phatthalung Constituency 1 MP.
The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division sentenced each of its political business holders to nine months in prison on June 11 for an honest offense. They were discovered to have permitted additional MPs to cast budget bills using their electronic voting tickets in January 2020.
The second and third observations of the costs were declared illegal as a result. Additionally, their social rights were violated for the three.
All three of them were set to be released from the Bangkok Special Prison and the Central Women’s Correctional Institution on Sunday, according to changes officers, and they all met the requirements for pardon.
Chalong and Phumsit may spend the rest of their words in their houses in Phatthalung while Natee and her husband’s house in Bangkok will be where they spend their days.
The three of them will report to a parole officer on a regular basis until their statements are all over.
Previous Democrat record MP Watchara Petchthong, a regular critic of the Department of Corrections, welcomed Bhumjaithai head Anutin Charnvirakul and the people of the paroleees.
He questioned whether the ministry would grant the same opportunity to poorer people despite the fact that the ex-MPs had served quarter of their statements and met another problems for pardon.
” I would like to request the Department of Corrections to use the same standards to common prisoners, the poor and the poor nationwide”, he said.
” Don’t develop prison to detain only the bad or those without links”.