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Wife pleads for jailed Premchai’s transfer to hospital

Premchai Karnasuta, second left, arrives at the Supreme Court on Dec 8, 2021. He was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for hunting protected wild animals in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi in February 2018 and ordered to pay 2 million baht in damages. (Bangkok Post file photo)

The wife of jailed tycoon Premchai Karnasuta on Wednesday submitted a letter to Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin seeking her husband’s transfer for medical treatment to a hospital outside Thong Pha Phum Prison in Kanchanaburi province, where he is being held.

Premchai, 66, former president of Italian-Thai Development Plc, was sentenced by the Supreme Court on Dec 8 to a prison term of three years and two months for hunting in Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary nearly four years ago.

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