Vorayuth Yoovidhya was arrested on Sept 3, 2012, hours after his black Ferrari rammed into a motorcycle, killing Pol Sgt Maj Wichian Klanprasert of Thong Lor police station. Netizens were quick to point out that in April the Yoovidhya family donated 300 million baht for the government to handle Covid-19. It emerged last week that the prosecution in June had dropped the final, most serious charge of reckless driving causing death. Previously, forensic police had concluded that Mr Vorayuth had been driving at 177km/h. The Taling Chan court rejected both charges and accepted three others: drink driving causing death, reckless driving causing serious injury and drink driving causing property damage.

Source: Bangkok Post July 26, 2020 23:26 UTC