New script twist in the case of Daniel Sancho. While the confessed murderer of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta remains in the Koh Samui prison, in Thailand, outside of it an event has just occurred that could turn the case around, and that is that The deputy director of the Thai Police force, Surachate ‘Big Joke’ Hakparn, the person in charge of supervising the case of the young Spaniard, is being investigated for alleged corruption.
Thus, a group of police officers searched Hakparnen Bangkok’s residence this Monday morning to look for evidence that may be related to the alleged bribery of about 140 million baht (which in exchange would be like 3.65 million euros), from an illegal online betting groupas reported by the state media ‘Thai PBS’.
At the moment he has not been arrested
At the moment there has been no arrest warrant against Big Joke, but there has been against 30 of his subordinate police officers.who would have been implicated in the bribery case of a group led by Phongsiri ‘Bostal’ Tharawongsuk, the former president of the Thai football club, Lamphun Warriors.
An investigation that comes at a key moment in the ‘Sancho case’, and in addition, Big Joke is one of the visible faces of ithaving stated on several occasions that the police believe that his case should be tried as premeditated murder, which would be punishable by capital punishment in Thailand.
In addition, the police are still working on the case of Daniel Sancho, who appeared for the first time before a Thai judge in the district of Samui, without a lawyer, and electronically to extend the provisional detention, as he has been since last 7 of August. From now on, they are seeking to set the date for his trial, which has been speculated to be possible in January 2024.
