TV anchor Sorrayuth hit with new B138m lawsuit
The Office of the Attorney-General on Thursday charged broadcaster Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda and others with forging documents and using them to damage Mcot Plc to the tune of 138 million baht.
The charges stem from advertising revenue embezzled from Mcot during the term of a TV news programme he hosted a decade ago.
Somnuek Siangkong, spokesman of the attorney-general, said public prosecutors had laid charges in the Criminal Court, alleging the forging of documents, use of the forged documents and damaging of documents to cause financial loss to another party.
The charges related to the embezzlement case in which Sorrayuth's Rai Som Co and a former Mcot employee colluded to conceal advertising revenue earned by his Kui Kui Kao news talk programme from February 2005 to April 2006. The income should have been shared with Mcot under the programme contract.
Rai Som Co paid then-Mcot employee Pichapa Iamsa-ard about 650,000 baht during the period to conceal the advertising records and she used correction fluid in doing so.
That enabled Rai Som to withhold advertising revenue that was due to Mcot, a loss totalling 138 million baht.
Public prosecutors charged that the defendants falsified 139 documents recording the advertising in the TV programme, from January to May 2006, with the intent of misleading Mcot.....
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