Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Freed Thai engineer arrives Thailand after release on Cambodian royal pardon

BANGKOK, Dec 14 (TNA) - Thai engineer Siwarak Chutipong, convicted by a Cambodian court on for espionage, arrived in his motherland Monday after being granted a royal amnesty by Cambodia's monarch, reasserting that his case was definitely not set up for political reasons.
Mr Siwarak, freed after Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni granted him hid royal pardon, arrived at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport Monday afternoon with his mother, Simarak Na Nakhonpanom, together with opposition Puea Thai MPs and party spokesman Prompong Nopparit who picked him up at Phnom Penh.
Mr Siwarak said on arrival that the case was not a set up as rumours swirled, as the Thai first secretary to Phnom Penh Kamrob Palawatwichai was involved in the case.

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