Swedish Kim Face the Death Penalty in Thailand


Kim Roger Eriksson is telling
Expressen about a living hell,
where fights and drugs is a
part of a violent environment.
By the way, Kim was arrested
for producing the so called Ice.
Photo: Scandmedia.

Kim Roger Eriksson, 29, according to Expressen, officially prosecuted for possession and production of more than 53 grams of methamphetamine, one of the most powerful drugs on the market. According to him self, he can risk to get the death penalty.

The Swedish tabloid Expressen is running an interview with Kim Roger Eriksson in their Sunday editio

During the entire interview the Swedish journalist is using something that seems to be Kim Roger Eriksson new family nam

When the Swede was arrested in mid-July. 2010, his full name was Kim Roger Eriksson, and scandasia.com prefer to stick to that name

During the interview Kim Roger Eriksson, who originally is from the north western part of Sweden, tells that he is locked up in the Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.

He is telling Expressen about a living hell, where fights and drugs is a part of a violent environment. By the way, Kim was arrested for producing the so called Ice.

Friday, the day when the detention of him, the prosecutor presented the charges against him in a court in Bangkok.

Kim Roger Eriksson is now, according to Expressen, officially prosecuted for possession and production of more than 53 grams of methamphetamine, one of the most powerful drugs on the market.

During the police raid in mid-July the police also found and confiscated a complete laboratory that is suspected to have been used to produce drugs, namely methamphetamine.

Under the Thai law possession of such a large quantity can be punished with the capital punishment if it’s assumed to be for sale.

And here comes the explanation of the use of a new family name.

Kim Roger Eriksson tells Expressen that he took his Thai wife's surname when they married.

He came to Thailand a couple of years ago and has been active in the Swedish real estate sector in the country, he says. To the knowledge of scandasia.com that information remains to be documented.

What is public knowledge is the fact that Kim Roger Eriksson claims he is innocent, According to him self he hasn’t done what he is accused of. The laboratory, which police found, he says, was not attempted to produce.

- I would not produce anything, just learn how it works. The knowledge I would just re-sell, he claims.

He puts the blame for the whole mess on another Swedish man, a chemist; he hired to teach him how the laboratory worked.

Kim Roger Eriksson suspect that the man always worked as an informer for the police. The may have disappeared shortly before the raid, which according Kim was led by the U.S. drug police DEA.

Source: http://www.scandasia...62&coun_code=se