Prison wardens took Natthapol Suwadee, 29, Narong Suwadee, 41, and Sitthisak Suwadee, 24, to the court to hear their sentences.
The three, all members of a criminal network run by Pol Lt Gen Pongpat Chayapan, the former Central Investigation Bureau chief, were initially given 11-year terms, but their sentences were halved because they had pleaded guilty.
The court ruled the defendants had forcibly taken a debtor at gunpoint from his house on Soi Sukhumvit 101 to their residence in Bangkok’s Thawi Wattana district in March 2014. There they cited the monarchy to force him to pay off the debts. They had illegally detained the debtor and had stolen his assets.
The prosecutors initially filed the suit against seven defendants in the case, but the other four accused — Sutthisak Sutthijit, Chakarn Pakphum, Witthaya Thetkhunthod and Chalat Porthirat — denied the charges. The court then decided to hear the prosecution charges in theri cases separately from the three brothers.
After the ruling, the three defendants were immediately taken back to prison to begin their terms behind bars.
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