BANGKOK: -- The Criminal Court on Friday sentenced former Kanchanaburi MP of the Democrat party one year in prison after finding him guilty of illegal occupation of more than 1,000 rai of state land in Dan Makamtia and Suan Pueng districts of Ratchaburi province for personal interest.
The former MP, Pracha Popipit or widely known as Kamnan Sia, 71, was prosecuted by the state attorney in the Criminal Court after he was accused of illegal trespassing, burning forest areas, constructing buildings in more than 1,000 rai of state property in Dan Makamtia and Suan Pueng districts of Ratchaburi province since 1990 to 2004.
Evidence produced by the state attorney to the court was substantial enough to prove he was guilty.
The court then sentenced him to serve one year in prison with no extension of jail term.
Pipit’s lawyer is applying for his release on a 100,000 baht cash as bail.
The former was earlier sentenced by
the Criminal Court to five years in prison after finding him and other
conspirators of price collusion in a government project.
However he appealed to the Appeals Court which later overruled the first court’s ruling and set him free.
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