Court to seize 18M baht from official whose home stash of cash raided during flood

More than two years ago in November, 2011, as Bangkok was threatened with massive flooding, a gang of thieves was arrested after trying to steal all of the money stored inside a government official’s Lat Phrao home. “Trying” because, as they said at the time, there was just too much – THB700 million to THB1 billion in cash they testified – for them to carry.

The news seized headlines for a number of weeks, then as such things tend to do, faded out under assurances of investigations.

Today, a Civil Court ruled that former transportation ministry secretary Supodh Saplom could not have possibly accumulated such wealth through legitimate, government service, and ordered that THB46.14 million of his assets be seized, The Nation reported.

The burglers themselves, however, were sentenced to jail for upward of 18 years for stealing THB18.12 million from Supoj’s cache of cash.



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