Ex-minister’s sentence shows Justice’s scales off-balance
The case in which a former Information and Communication Technology minister of the Thaksin Shinawatra government was sentenced to one year in jail - for causing the country to lose billions of baht as well as engendering national security risks - makes o
A citizen can be sentenced to 15 years in jail for stealing Bt100. But, if you are a politician who has caused billions to be stolen through corruption, you get one year. It should be that bigger – or white-collar – criminals get harsher punishments rather than the smaller ones, not the other way around.
Vint Chavala
