Pongpat Chayaphan

Pongpat Chayaphan (born: April 22, 1956 in Mueang Samut Sakhon District, Samut Sakhon Province) is a former Royal Thai Police officer who was the head of the country's Central Investigation Bureau.[1]

Pongpat graduated from Samut Sakhon Wittayalai School, Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy, Chulalongkorn University, and took an additional intelligence investigation course at the CIA University in Virginia, United States.[2]

He is the uncle of former Crown Princess Srirasmi Suwadee.[3]

In 2015 he was convicted of benefiting from a gambling den, violating a forestry-related law, money laundering and lese majeste.[4] When combined with the original jail sentence, according to the judgment, he must be punished 36 years and 4 months.[5]

References
  1. "Thai royalty 'defamed': Top policeman charged in probe". BBC News. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  2. https://www.sanook.com/news/1704669/
  3. "Senior Thai police sentenced to six years for lese majeste, corruption". Reuters. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Pongpat-Kowit-get-10-more-years-for-money-launderi-30254300.html
  5. https://www.bbc.com/thai/thailand-43207247
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