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Senior district official caught with envelope holding B3.2m bribe

Pramual Saengkaewsri, 57, seated, head of the Ratchathewi district office revenue section in Bangkok, after his arrest with an envelope containing 3.2 million baht from a real estate developer, at a hotel in Phaya Thai area. (Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham)

A senior Bangkok district official caught with an envelope containing 3.2 million baht in cash has denied it was a bribe he allegedly demanded from a development company, telling police he thought it held only a document.

Pramual Saengkaewsri, 57, head of the Ratchathewi district office revenue section, was arrested in the car park of a hotel in Phaya Thai area of Ratchathewi district on Tuesday.

He was charged with, as an official, demanding or receiving a bribe and…

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