Bangkok, ‘Big Joke’ revealed that he has not yet received a verdict in the case of the Police Commission indicating that the order to dismiss him from government service was lawful. However, if it is negative, he is preparing to file a complaint with the Administrative Court within 90 days, while the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has resolved to freeze the bank accounts of ‘Big Joke’ and his wife of 480,000 baht.
Progress in the case of the Police Ethics Protection Committee (P.E.C.P.C.) scheduling a hearing to appeal the order to temporarily suspend Pol. Gen. Surachet Hakpal, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police. Most recently, today, Mr. Thawatchai Thai Khiao, one of the P.E.C.P.C. and Deputy Spokesperson of the P.E.C.P.C., posted a message on Facebook regarding the consideration of the appeal in the matter, stating that
The NCC Committee met to consider the case of Pol. Gen. Surachet or Surachet Hakpal and sent the decision to the appellant and the other party. There is evidence th
at both parties have received the decision that the Royal Thai Police Order No. 178/2567 dated April 18, 2567 is an order that is carried out in accordance with the criteria and methods specified by law and the NCC regulations and is an appropriate exercise of discretion. Therefore, it is a lawful order. The decision was to dismiss the appeal and the request to determine the temporary method of the appellant.
In this case, if the appellant disagrees with the decision of the Appeal Commission, he has the right to file a lawsuit with the Supreme Administrative Court by filing a lawsuit with a court officer or by sending a lawsuit by registered mail within 90 days from the date of knowing or being deemed to know this decision.
“Big Joke” is ready to move forward
with the Administrative Court. Pol. Gen. Surachet said that he personally does not know what the results are. He has not received the verdict yet. He is waiting. He does not know that yesterday the Police Commission had a secret meeting until almost m
idnight. He confirmed that if the results are negative or the order to temporarily resign from the civil service is legal, he will submit the case to the Supreme Administrative Court within 90 days.
The fact-finding results of ‘Big Joke’ have not been concluded for serious disciplinary offenses. Meanwhile
, Pol. Gen. Sarawut Karnpanich, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police and Chairman of the fact-finding committee for Pol. Gen. Surachet Hakpal, Deputy Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, and five others who committed serious disciplinary offenses, confirmed that the committee has not yet summoned Pol. Gen. Surachet and his associates to acknowledge the serious disciplinary offense charges next week, as rumored, because only the resolution of the Police Ethics Protection Committee (PPC) has issued a proper order to dismiss him from government service and dismiss the appeal.
The investigation process is proceeding according to the procedure. The witnesses of the accusing committee
are being questioned. There are many witnesses. It must be done carefully, with fairness for all parties, under the main principle of legal regulations. The same applies to Pol. Gen. Surachet, whose investigation has not yet been completed.
Rumours of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) seizing assets of ‘Big Joke’
In addition, throughout the day, there has been news that the AMLO has ordered the seizure of assets of Pol. Gen. Surachet after Pol. Gen. Surachet was previously accused of having financial connections to the online gambling website BNK Master, but there has been no clear confirmation from the person directly responsible.
The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) has resolved to freeze the deposits of ‘Big Joke’ and his wife, 480,000 baht.
The AMLO office announced the results of the meeting of the Transaction Committee, which has dealt with the assets of Mr. Nattawat Phimsawat and his associates. In the meeting of the Transaction Committee No. 10/2567 today (August 6), there was a case of p
ublic interest, Mr. Nattawat Phimsawat and his associates, which is an additional seizure of assets in the case of the basic offense of organizing gambling via electronic media and money laundering. The case was prosecuted against a group of people involved in the online gambling website network https:www.betflixroyal.com and https:www.betflikroyal.net, which the Transaction Committee had previously ordered to temporarily seize and freeze assets related to the offense twice (Orders Y.2/2567 and Y.80/2567), totaling more than 250 assets processed, worth more than 109 million baht.
Today, the meeting of the transaction committee unanimously resolved that since the facts show that some of the money related to the basic offense was used to pay for insurance premiums according to the life insurance contract of Pol. Gen. Surachet Hakpal and his wife, and later the insured surrendered the life insurance policy, it is considered that some of the money obtained from the surrender of the said policy is an asset relate
d to the offense. In this regard, the money in the bank accounts of Pol. Gen. Surachet and his wife, totaling 3 items, worth approximately 480,000 baht, is temporarily frozen, in accordance with Section 48, paragraph one of the Anti-Money Laundering Act B.E. 2542.
Source: Thai News Agency