An investigation team led by police chief
Gen Chakthip Chaijinda
(second from left), displays a chart indicating alleged
links of
the nine suspects at the Royal Thai Police
headquarters on Thusday.
(Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
One of the "Khon Kaen Model" suspects facing an arrest warrant
for a new subversion plot will file a
countersuit against
investigators because he has been in jail since May 2014,
his lawyer said on Saturday.
Warrants for Thanakrit Thongngernperm, 49,
and eight other
people, were approved this week. Police acted on a complaint
filed by the National Council for Peace and Order, which accused
the nine of
lese majeste and breaking the Computer Crime Act.
The suspects are red-shirt supporters allegedly
linked to the
"Khon Kaen Model", an armed movement with military
training
that emerged in 2014 in the northeastern province.
Its key members
were arrested in a crackdown by the
a day after the 2014 coup.
Police and Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, the deputy
prime minister
for security, told the media this week that the nine men had
plotted subversion in Bangkok and assassinations of two key
government figures.
Critics of the military regime are sceptical
about the claim,
saying it sounded like something intended to divert public
attention from the corruption scandal surrounding the
military-backed
Rajabhakti Park.
Police chief Chakthip Chaijinda also said he had set up a
joint
police-military investigation team led by his deputy,
Pol Gen Srivara
Rangsitbramakul, which found enough evidence
to prosecute the men. They
arrested two men and said the rest were
on the run.
However, Benjarat Meethien, a lawyer, told Prachatai
on Saturday
that counsellors for the accused found Thanakrit had been
imprisoned at Khon Kaen prison since May last year for his alleged
role in the
Khon Kaen Model after the 2014 crackdown.
His bail was later approved but he was not released because
His bail was later approved but he was not released because
his ex-wife had
charged him with forging documents for the sale
of her car. Thanakrit was
pronounced guilty in the document
forgery case and sentenced to two years in jail. He has since
been
imprisoned.
"In short, Thanakrit has been in jail
uninterruptedly for 18 months.
So it's impossible he could have been involved in
the new
[Khon Kaen Model] case," Ms Benjarat told Prachatai.
She said her team met n Saturday with
Thanakrit who authorised
them to represent him in a countersuit against officials
in charge
of the case for causing damage to himThey plan to file the
countersuit on Sunday. The Khon Kaen Model movement pledged
to protect former
prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra when her
government was being threatened by
street protests bent on
toppling her in 2013-14.
The
military claimed they were plotting unrest in four steps:
mobilising people;
negotiating for security officials to disarm
themselves; negotiating with
military officers; and destroying
financial institutions and giving money to
the poor.
At
the time, police said that if the alleged Khon Kaen Model
operation was
successful, other provinces, especially in the North,
would follow.
The aborted plan was reportedly scheduled to
be carried out
on May 24 last year, two days after the coup.
Twenty-six people were arrested on May 23
last year and were
first tried at the Khon Kaen military court on Oct 21 last
year.
Prosecutors filed nine serious charges against them, which they
all
denied. Seven of them were granted bail shortly after due to
health issues. The
other 19 remain in prison.
News,Security,Bangkok Post, 28 Novermber
2015.
In my opinion,I believe the subversion plot
is found by
the police and lead to the arrest warrant.
Meanwhile as Mr Thanakrit was in prison does
not mean
he can not invole in the subversion plot.
Sincerely Yours.
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