Thaksin’s son doubles reward for Bangkok bomb suspect

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Thaksin’s son doubles reward for Bangkok bomb suspect

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The total money being offered to anyone who can give information about the assailant now stands at $335,000

BANGKOK, Thailand – The son of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday, August 22, has more than doubled the reward offered by police for the capture of those behind this week’s deadly Bangkok bomb blast by putting up nearly $200,000.

Panthongtae Shinawatra, the first born son of populist leader Thaksin, said his father had given him permission to do it. Thaksin currently lives abroad in self-imposed exile after a corruption conviction that he insists was political.

“I have been given permission from my father to give seven million baht — two for any informant and five million for those officials who investigate and make arrests,” he wrote in a Facebook post late Friday.

Before this, the reward for any information that leads to the capture of the assailant 3 million baht ($84,000).

“In order to swiftly regain confidence and morale among both Thais and foreigners we have to arrest the suspect as soon as possible to make everyone realise that Thailand is not [a] place where this kind of thing can happen and you get off scot free,” he added.

Monday’s attack on a religious shrine in a bustling Bangkok shopping district killed 20 people, mostly ethnic Chinese tourists from across Asia, leaving police scrambling to find the assailants and sending shock waves through the nation’s vital tourism sector.

Police are convinced the attack was planned and coordinated by a network.

Earlier in the week a prominent member of the Red Shirt movement loyal to Thaksin also offered a further two million baht reward — bringing the total money on offer to $335,000. – Rappler.com

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