When a leaked video last month showed a local police chief suffocating a suspect, it was not just the revelation of torture and death in police custody which shocked the Thai public.
The former police chief, Colonel Thitisant Utthanaphon, was more commonly known by the moniker “Joe Ferrari” – an apparent reference to his expensive tastes.
He, along with six others, was pictured wrapping plastic bags around the head of a 24-year-old arrested for selling methamphetamine pills. The suspect eventually died. He has admitted to mistreating the suspect but denied demanding a bribe.
When police raided Mr Thitisan’s luxury home in Bangkok they found a dozen high-priced cars.
The Customs department believes he owns at least 42 cars, one of them a rare Lamborghini Aventador Anniversario, of which only 100 were made, priced in Thailand at 47 million baht ($1.45m; £1.05m).
So how did he amass…
