The Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the guilty verdict for bribery against a former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) governor and her daughter.

An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s prison sentence of 50 years on the former governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Juthamas Siriwan, for accepting Bt62 million in bribes from an American couple seeking the rights to host a Bangkok film festival between 2002 and 2007.