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Fugitive Thai millionaire protests his innocence

Fugitive Thai millionaire protests his innocence

BANGKOK (AFP) - A fugitive Thai millionaire wanted on charges including royal defamation broke cover to protest his innocence Sunday.

Nopporn Suppipat denied police accusations that he helped orchestrate the kidnapping of a man who owed him money, and said he fled to Cambodia on November 30 after discovering he would be charged under Thailand's draconian lese majeste law.
 
"I knew '112' would mean I wouldn't get bail... I couldn't take that risk," the 43-year-old told AFP in a phone interview from an undisclosed location early Sunday. 
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