A state official has been sentenced to four years for possessing and distributing more than 250,000 files of child sexual abuse material involving thousands of Thai and foreign victims, as the DSI expands its investigation with international partners and European law enforcement agencies to dismantle a transnational network.

THE SUPREME COURT on Wednesday sentenced to 37 years and four months in jail a man found to be the “popcorn gunman” involved in an anti-government rally aimed at blocking elections in February 2014.