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CRIME SUPPRESSION Division officers will this week order the Counter-Corruption Division to take legal action against the embattled Kanchanaburi police chief, Pol Maj-General Sutthi Puangpikul, in relation to a high-profile case surrounding the dispute over Bt30-million winning lottery tickets.

THE TEACHERS’ Council of Thailand will today look into whether there had been a violation of the Teachers’ Ethics Act after a Kanchanaburi teacher was slapped with three charges over ownership of Bt30-million winning lottery tickets.

ARREST WARRANTS will be sought today for a teacher and a lottery ticket vendor involved in the Bt30-million lottery controversy in Kanchanaburi, both of whom are accused of giving false information with malicious intent.

KANCHANABURI’S police chief has been transferred out of his post over a lottery-cheating scandal, giving weight to widespread speculation that some state officials had allegedly colluded in the plot to grab the Bt30-million prize from the legitimate winner.

ABOUT 100 police officers from the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) yesterday searched seven locations in Kanchanaburi and summoned six people for questioning as part of its investigation into a highly-publicised dispute between retired policeman Charoon Wimul, 62, and teacher Preecha Kraikruan, 50, about the real ownership of five lottery tickets that won Bt30 million in the November 1 draw.

Teacher’s witnesses lied in situation ‘like Jomsap case’, police say as former cop’s prospects improve

THE CIVIL Court will start a trial in May to determine the legitimate owner of lottery tickets that claimed a Bt30-million jackpot in a high-profile dispute between a retired policeman and a teacher.

Delegates from Asean countries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jump-start a cooperation pilot project on the reduction of post-harvest losses during a regional consultation meeting on Monday in Bogor, West Java.

A crime victims’ rights group on Monday asked the national police chief to temporarily remove a police commander from Kanchanaburi province to ensure the fairness of the investigation into the Bt30-million lottery tickets scandal there.

Retired police lieutenant Charoon Wimul, who is in a dispute with a schoolteacher over a multi-million-baht lottery jackpot, performed a vow on Sunday in front of Kanchanaburi’s sacred City Pillar Shrine swearing that he was the one telling the truth in the matter.

AFTER POLICE summoned him to hear two criminal charges, a retired police lieutenant yesterday challenged a teacher involved in a dispute over a multi-million-baht lottery jackpot to make a pledge in front of Kanchanaburi’s sacred City Pillar Shrine to determine who was telling the truth.

THE CENTRAL Institute of Forensic Science (CIFS) yesterday announced its findings in a much-publicised dispute that a retired police lieutenant was the owner of the winning lottery tickets worth about Bt30 million, not a teacher who claimed to be the legitimate owner.