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Red Bull heir on the run 10 years after Ferrari police murder
A wrecked Ferrari, a dead cop and an heir on the run: Ten years later, Thailand still hasn’t come close to solving one of the world’s most notorious car crash cases.
Steal ‘Boss’ Juvidya, the prince of the Red Bull energy drink family, is accused of hitting police officer Vechean Glanprasert’s motorcycle with his Ferrari a decade ago this Saturday in Bangkok’s wealthiest district. After eluding prosecutors and finally escaping Thailand on a private jet in 2017, Voraiut has become a symbol of what critics say is the impunity enjoyed by super-rich kingdoms.
“The perception of different justice systems for different sections of society paralyzes people’s faith in the ability of the Thai state to fulfill its responsibility to protect the rights of all Thais,” Amnesty International Thailand told AFP.
As the grandson of Red Bull co-founder Chaleo Yuvidya, who died in 2012, Vorayut belongs to a clan with an estimated net worth of $26.4 billion (roughly the same in euros), making her the second richest family in Thailand. Forbes. “This family is strong not only in Thailand but all over the world,” Thai political scientist Pavin Chachawalpongpun of Kyoto University told AFP.
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Hours after the crash, investigators followed the trail of brake fluid to the Yuvidya family’s home in Bangkok, where they found a battered car with a shattered windshield. Police initially took the lead that the employee was driving a Ferrari, but Vorayut became the prime suspect and his family later paid the victim’s relatives $100,000 in damages, according to the BBC and The New York Times.
For five years Vorayut played with the courtroom, claiming through his lawyers that he was abroad on business or ill, while photographs documented a luxurious lifestyle: living in London, visiting the Bull, relaxing on the beach and skiing.
Charges of speeding, drunk driving and failure to provide assistance expired before a Bangkok court belatedly issued an arrest warrant in 2017. By that time Vorayut had already escaped.
In 2020, the Thai authorities dropped all charges against Woryuth, causing massive public outcry, including a media campaign to boycott Red Bull. To try to stop this backlash, the TCP Group – the parent company of Red Bull Thailand – has distanced itself from the company, saying the case is private.
As anger escalated and youth-led anti-government demonstrations escalated in the streets, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s office ordered a retrial, which concluded that the entire investigation had been “compromised.”
However, a stark contrast could be seen between the shuffling of the Vorayut case and the swift action taken against the leaders of the anti-government protests, many of whom faced numerous charges of actual defamation carrying penalties of up to 15 years in prison. years.
Thailand’s Attorney General’s Office announced new charges against Woryuit, and in September 2020, Interpol issued a red notice for his arrest. Last March’s update stated that Vorayut was trying to access the Red Notice and that he was likely in France at the time. The warning also mentions Austria, where Red Bull is based, as a possible hideout.
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The cocaine charge expired last month, Thailand’s Attorney General’s Office said, leaving the prosecutor’s office with only one avenue to file a case against Woryut: reckless driving resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
Thailand’s Attorney General’s Office told AFP that the indictment is valid until 2027. Few, however, expect Vorayut to face trial.
“From the very beginning, many people already knew how everything would end,” says political scientist Pavin Chachawalpongpun, noting the strong public anger around the case. “Rich people committing crimes and escaping have become the norm in Thai society, but Thais don’t accept that this is normal.”
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Vladimir Putin has delayed the invasion of Ukraine at least three times.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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Life sentence for former Swedish official for spying for Russia
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
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Ukraine admitted that Russia may announce a general mobilization
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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