The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld jail sentences handed down by the Appeals Court on a former army officer attached to the Supreme Command and two other men found guilty in a drug case.
Former major Chanont Chinwong, alias Seh Not, Sukhum Chuachaemchan and Withoon Niyakij were arrested and charged that between Feb 20 and April 11, 2007 they had in their possession 12.7 grammes of ice, or crystal methamphetamine, and with selling two bags containing 1.01 gramme of ice to an undercover agent for 6,000 baht.
The Criminal Court sentenced Chanont and Withoon to 50 years in jail and a 3.6 million baht fine. The court also gave Sukhum 16 years and two months imprisonment and a fine of 900,000 baht.
The Appeals Court lowered the sentence for Chanont and Withoon to 41 years in prison and a 3 million baht fine, and for Sukhum to 14 years and eight months in jail and a fine of 800,000 baht. The three appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court upheld the Appeals Court's sentences.
Chanont is already facing a death sentence in another case. He was sentenced by the Supreme Court to death for killing two police officers who were trying to arrest him in an exchange of gunfire on April 11, 2007.