Court doles out huge terms for fraud

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The Appeals Court Thursday corrected the sentences of former assistant abbot of Wat Debsirindrawas and 15 others, including civil servants and close disciples, [color:brown]giving some of them 1,148 to 2,234 years in prison[/color] over royal decoration fraud.

 

[color:brown]However, since the maximum jail term for such crimes is 50 years, their sentences were reduced accordingly.[/color]

 

{The Appeals Court? "1 million years I say!" "What? I can only give them 50? Damn!"}

 

The issued a verdict Thursday on the case involving former monk Phasuk Khaophong and 15 others who were charged of demanding donations and forging donation certificates to apply for royal decorations in 1988.

 

The court changed the term for disciple Arun Phetcharat from 1,130 years to 2,234; for former teacher Montri Jamnong from 1,170 years to 2,180; and for former Education Ministry official Aree Satsara from 2,660 to 1,470 years because he was cleared of one count.

 

The court also upheld the lower court's ruling sentencing former Bangkok Bank official Pattaya Pimsa-ard to 1,920 years in jail and former PM's Office civil servant Methee Borisut, who died in 2007, to 1,148 years.

 

The Appeals Court also upheld the lower court's ruling to acquit three former civil servants Pipop Boondirek, Chamaiporn Saengkrajang and Wiroj Chathong.

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