DSI gets a lead in super-car case
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has received information from a transport firm owner about who might own the luxury cars that were damaged in a trailer-truck fire in Nakhon Ratchashima last month.
Hence, DSI chief Tarit Pengdith said, the probe should be completed in the next two weeks.
The DSI and other related agencies were also scheduled to meet with 10 super-car dealers later yesterday to inspect vehicles that are believed to have been wrongly registered as locally re-assembled, Tarit said.
Tarit said the DSI was interrogating the owner of the trailer company, A-ngoon Jeungsaengmanee, and trailer driver Ekkapan Wilamon, and was hence able to identify the person who had hired the trailer to transport the luxury cars. However, Tarit said the name could not be revealed as the investigation was pending.
He said that within two weeks, the DSI should be able to identify others involved. He said the investigation had initially found that JMW Motors Co, TAN Express Co and Porjai Autopart Co had sent auto-parts to Dhamma Motor Rich Co to re-assemble and register the cars.
Tarit said that the probe into 532 other wrongly registered vehicles would not interfere in this investigation, adding that DSI officials will contact the owners to present their papers on June 14.
Meanwhile, the Provincial Police Region 3 said yesterday that it was looking into other re-assembled super cars in seven provinces in the lower Northeast.
