Yingyong Yodbuangam, a famous folk singer also known as Prayong Buangam, has escaped with a one-year suspended jail term for exaggerating the benefits of his caterpillar fungus or “Tang Chao”– based food supplement.
The Criminal Court in Nonthaburi on Thursday sentenced the singer to two years in jail and fined him 50,000 baht. However, the jail term and the fine were halved due to his confession before the court further ordered the jail sentence to be suspended for one year.
Yingyong was indicted on a charge of colluding to exaggerate the medicinal properties of Tang…
