The Criminal Court imposed a three-year jail term on each of the defandants, but reduced it to two because they had cooperated with prosecutors. PAD lawyer Suwat Apaipak requested that the court release all defendants but Sonthi on bail. He said he would bring the case to the Supreme Court. Sonthi, 70, is serving a 20-year jail term in another case involving his company, Manager Media Group. In September last year, the Supreme Court found him - together with three former Manager directors - guilty of falsifying multi-million-baht loan guarantee documents without approval from the MMG's board of directors.

Source: Bangkok Post July 24, 2017 07:41 UTC