The former head of Thailand’s tourism department was given a 50-year jail sentence for accepting US$1.8mil (RM7.9mil) in kickbacks from an American couple lobbying for rights to host a Bangkok film festival.
Juthamas Siriwan, 69, accepted the bribes while she was tourism chief in the early 2000s, according to the verdict delivered yesterday at a new Bangkok court handling corruption cases.
Judges also sentenced her daughter, Jittisopha, to 44 years for helping hide the cash in overseas bank accounts, and ordered Thai authorities to seize the money.
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April 02, 2017 at 12:46PM
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