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Third person charged over Thai king rumours
(AFP) – 47 minutes ago




AFP: Third person charged over Thai king rumours


BANGKOK — Thai authorities charged a third person Tuesday with spreading false rumours about the health of the country's revered king, after concerns about his condition sent markets plunging, police said.
Somjet Sitthiworakul was arrested at his home near the resort of Pattaya for allegedly damaging national security by posting false information on the Internet, a day after police said they had charged two other people.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is regarded as a demi-god by many Thais and as a stabilising force in a politically turbulent nation, has been in hospital since mid-September with a lung infection and fever.
"A third suspect has been arrested by the investigation team on Tuesday and charged with violating the computer act," Police Lieutenant General Thangai Prasjaksattru, chief of the central investigation bureau, told AFP.
He had no further details about Somjet's age or occupation.
The Thai bourse plunged 8.22 percent at one point on October 15 over rumours about the health of the 81-year-old king, the world's longest reigning monarch, prompting the government to launch an investigation.
At the weekend police arrested Katha Pajariyapong and Theeranan Vipuchanin, both of whom have finance backgrounds, on the same charge and released them on bail on Monday.
If convicted they could face up to five years in jail or a 100,000 baht (2,985 US dollar) fine.
The king on Monday made his second public appearance since he was admitted to hospital, lighting candles at a traditional water festival. He was pushed in a wheelchair to the ceremony by doctors.
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zubber

kinda reminds one of a book that George Orwell wrote in 1948

Rural Surin

Thought, opinion, speculation, theoretical police. Lovely.....

Spitfire

Yeah, he (Orwell) would be proud of them.

English Noodles

Long Live The King!

Red dragon

Long Live the King indeed!!!!

Wish some more rumours would spread though, 54 baht to the pound is fucking shit!!

meepho

red
there could be some good news on the horizon,
on bloomberg this morning, a question form 'Bill' in chang mai asked about investment in thailand,
Well thailand got a slating, and is definately not an investment.
The health of the king was mentioned along with the ever changing laws on foreign investment.
The dual banking system onshore and offshore to manipulate the baht is considered dangerous, and he went on to comment about foreign investment waining very fast, therefor the baht is largely overvalued and could be due to a severe correction.

harrybarracuda

This has bugger all to do with Orwellian nightmares, it's stock manipulation, simple as.

No different to those "secret" stock tips you get that make the shares pile upwards until the blokes that started the stories cash out, and it all comes tumbling down.

The fact that the two concerned had "financial" backgrounds implies that they had bet on the SET dropping and probably made a packet. No they're going to have to share some of it with the boys in brown.

harrybarracuda

[quote=meepho;1219706]Meepho, who is "he"?

meepho

[quote=harrybarracuda;1220316]Sorry mate,
'He' was an australian investment guru on the Bernie lo asia spotlight show.
and i can not remember his name.

zubber

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also 1984), by George Orwell, published in 1949, is a dystopian novel about the totalitarian régime of the Party, an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, and the voiding of citizens' rights. In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meagre existence disillusions him into rebellion against Big Brother, which leads to his arrest, torture, and conversion.

Rural Surin

It's a shame that Mr. Orwell didn't live/practivce his protest.

good2bhappy

bringing some money in in a week!