Bangkok Post
The Foreign Ministry is ready to file an appeal or seek a royal pardon for convicted Thai spy Sivarak Chutipong, but it is up to his family to decide, Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said on Wednesday.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced Mr Sivarak to seven years in prison and a fine of 10 million riel, about 82,000 baht, on a charge of spying.
Sivarak, 31, an employee of Thai-owned Cambodia Air Traffic Services (CATS), was arrested on Nov 12 on charges of stealing state secrets, the flight information of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra when he visited Phnom Pehn, and giving the information to a Thai diplomat.
Mr Kasit said before visiting the three southern border provinces with visiting Malaysian cabinet ministers in the morning that Sivarak's mother and other family members will decide whether they want the government's assistance.
"We have Thai diplomats in Phnom Penh who are ready to help Mr Sivarak," he said.
However, Sivarak's mother Simarak na Nakhon Phanom blamed Khamrob Palawatwichai, the first secretary to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, as being the cause of her son's trouble. She called on him to show responsibility for her son.
Sivarak said in court that Mr Khamrob asked him about Thaksin's flight information, and admitted that he confirmed the flight's arrival to the diplomat.
Foreign Minister Kasit's secretary Chavanond Intarakomalyasut insisted Mr Khamrob had not done anything illegal and had not requested Mr Sivarak to steal anything.
"I believe Mr Khamrob does not have to explain anything to the press," Mr Chavanond said.
However, the Foreign Ministry was always ready to aid Sivarak but his mother would decide if she wanted help from the government or the opposition Puea Thai Party.
"We're all Thais, and helping each other is a good thing," he said.
Reports said Mrs Sivarak had faxed the court's verdict to the Puea Thai Party in the morning, asking former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who are close associates with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, to help her jailed son.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced Mr Sivarak to seven years in prison and a fine of 10 million riel, about 82,000 baht, on a charge of spying.
Sivarak, 31, an employee of Thai-owned Cambodia Air Traffic Services (CATS), was arrested on Nov 12 on charges of stealing state secrets, the flight information of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra when he visited Phnom Pehn, and giving the information to a Thai diplomat.
Mr Kasit said before visiting the three southern border provinces with visiting Malaysian cabinet ministers in the morning that Sivarak's mother and other family members will decide whether they want the government's assistance.
"We have Thai diplomats in Phnom Penh who are ready to help Mr Sivarak," he said.
However, Sivarak's mother Simarak na Nakhon Phanom blamed Khamrob Palawatwichai, the first secretary to the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh, as being the cause of her son's trouble. She called on him to show responsibility for her son.
Sivarak said in court that Mr Khamrob asked him about Thaksin's flight information, and admitted that he confirmed the flight's arrival to the diplomat.
Foreign Minister Kasit's secretary Chavanond Intarakomalyasut insisted Mr Khamrob had not done anything illegal and had not requested Mr Sivarak to steal anything.
"I believe Mr Khamrob does not have to explain anything to the press," Mr Chavanond said.
However, the Foreign Ministry was always ready to aid Sivarak but his mother would decide if she wanted help from the government or the opposition Puea Thai Party.
"We're all Thais, and helping each other is a good thing," he said.
Reports said Mrs Sivarak had faxed the court's verdict to the Puea Thai Party in the morning, asking former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, who are close associates with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, to help her jailed son.
7 comments:
Kaset Piromya is an gangster at BKK airport, how does he help? is it in diplomatic way? No way boy, you guy had locked yourself out off contact.
Dream on boy, your old in age but childish in attitude.
Boy Piromya, you should help your yellow shirt that got shot in head and still can not find guilty person.
PM Hun Sen has said in many occassion that he has stoped working with Ahbisit and Kashit. How can they help they help?
Hun Sen stoped working with Abishit but working very close with Hanoi...
Chopping more Khmer land and exchange with Vietnamese women.
What about khmer people being shot at and burned alive? Thais has look down on khmer people from day one...
Thai government makes an effort to help one Thai jailed in Cambodia. Do Khmer government ever done anything to help many Khmers who jailed in Thailand? Nothing. Ashamed, ashamed, ashamed for Khmers as Thai government treat their people better than the Khmer government counterpart.
Kasit and Ahbullshit better think of helping their Thai spy of course.
Good comments Post 2:38am!
Post a Comment