Chuwong was alive when his car crashed, says top cop

Colonel Akaradej Pimonsri revealed this information as suspicion grew that Chuwong might have been killed and his body put into the car to make it look like an accident. The man driving the car was former deputy commerce minister Pol Lt-Colonel Banyin Tangpakorn, who was giving Chuwong a ride home when the crash took place. Banyin survived without a scratch.
Chuwong’s family has raised doubts about the tycoon’s death after realising that a huge volume of his shares had been transferred to two women not many days before the crash. They have also suggested that the signatures on the transfer documents had been forged. “We have now frozen the shares,” Akaradej said.
The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), meanwhile, said it should be able to shed light very soon on the cases involving Chuwong’s death and the transfer of shares.
CIB commissioner Pol Lt-General Thitiraj Nhongharnpitak said yesterday that all doubts in this case should be cleared in two weeks.

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“The share transfer and his death may or may not be related. We will solve the two cases based on available evidence,” he said, adding that the two women should report to police quickly for their own safety. Even though Chuwong’s death and the questionable share transfer have become big news, the two women have yet to respond to police summonses.
A source said one of the women was good-looking and had been intimate with Chuwong. “She’s pregnant and Chuwong obviously wanted to take responsibility,” the source said, adding that the woman was expected to report to police tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Udomsuk Police Station superintendent Colonel Nitis Boonjarern said his team was in the process of checking with a Toyota service centre as to why the airbags in the Lexus had not functioned during the accident.
“So far, Toyota staff have told us that normally airbags should have worked if the accident happened while the vehicle was moving at a speed of over 60km per hour. But they have to examine the vehicle closely before coming to a conclusion,” Nitis said.