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Sub-title: Thailand court upholds executions for migrant workers in rape and killings of two British holiday-makers in 2014.
Description: "Thailand's top court upheld death sentences for two Myanmar migrant workers in a final appeal against their convictions for murdering two British backpackers on a holiday island in a case tainted by allegations of mismanagement. Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin denied killing David Miller and raping and killing Hannah Witheridge. Their battered bodies were found on the morning of September 15, 2014, on a beach on the island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand. The men displayed no emotion on Thursday as they listened intently to a translator while the verdict was read at a court in the province of Nonthaburi, just north of Bangkok, the capital. "The Supreme Court upholds the verdict from the first court and the appeal court," a judge told the pair. The men's legal team said it would seek a royal pardon within 60 days, as provided in Thai law. Lawyers for the two convicted men said the evidence in the case was mishandled and they made confessions under duress that they later retracted, raising questions about police competence and the judicial system in Thailand..."
Source/publisher: "Al Jazeera"
2019-08-29
Date of entry/update: 2019-08-29
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Description: "Money laundering is the most significant economic phenomenon of organized crime. Containing the influence of organized crime requires the elimination of its livelihood, which in Burma is mainly the illicit drug trade. Under the rule of the military junta, Burma has become the world?s biggest producer of heroin and methamphetamines. Burma?s drug lords are now major investors in the country?s economy and have considerable cash reserves at their disposal. In many countries nowadays, tighter banking controls make it difficult for criminals to launder money for use in the legitimate economy. However, banking control in Burma is not very tight, legislation is ineffective, and the military junta is clearly benefiting from the drug trade. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has added Burma to its blacklist of countries deemed uncooperative in fighting money laundering. As a result of this, the Burmese junta is currently in the process of drafting an ?Illicit Proceeds and Property Control Law?..."
Creator/author: Peter Gutter
Source/publisher: "Legal Issues on Burma Journal" No. 10 (Burma Lawyers' Council)
2001-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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