You do the crime, you do the time. For a 39-year-old former police officer convicted of skimming from official fees that almost meant a year in prison for every THB114 taken.
Police Sgt. Maj. Mno Muchua was indicted in criminal court yesterday on charges of corruption, which could have sent him to prison. For 800 years, according to statute.
That’s because Mno, previously an administrator in the Bueng Kum district, was taken to task for 160 counts of corruption, as officials say he took helping handfuls of official fees from alien registration and bail money to the tune of THB91,200.
The law states the defendant would have to face terms of five years in prison for each of the 160 counts.
However, the defendant made a full confession, which is always appreciated in the Thai justice system, and returned all of the money, saving himself from half the jail time. Fortunately for him, the law also caps corruption sentences at 50 years, so we should see 89-year-old Mno again in 2063, Matichon reported.
