THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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DSI officials to take lie detector tests in Tawatchai death case

DSI officials to take lie detector tests in Tawatchai death case

The Department of Special Investigation has already required five of its officials and security guards to submit to lie detector tests in connection with the controversial death of a suspect in custody last year and passed the results to the court.

“It’s up to the court to decide whether to take the lie-detector results into account,” Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang, director-general of the DSI, said yesterday.
Tawatchai Anukul, a prime suspect in the alleged illegal issuance of land-rights documents for seaside plots worth at least Bt900 million, was found hanging inside a DSI cell on August 30, 2016.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The Criminal Court ruled last Friday that he was put to death.
Police are now looking for the real perpetrators.
The Justice Ministry has conducted a probe into Tawatchai’s death with doctors from four hospitals on the fact-finding committee.
“We can explain his death,” Paisit said.
The Justice Ministry’s committee had doubts about the autopsy finding that Tawatchai had a ruptured liver.
“The volume of blood in his abdominal cavity was about 1000cc, while bleeding from a ruptured liver should leave more than 3,000cc of blood there,” he said.
There was no sign of fighting inside Tawatchai’s cell at DSI headquarters, he added.

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