Authorities have also seized assets worth more than US$300 million including cash, gold, land deeds, amulets, Budhist artworks and images from properties owned by the former CIB chief. A foreign businessman told Asia Sentinel that Princess Srirasmi owns or owned an antique shop in Bangkok and “hence the uncle’s large collection of antiques that were squeezed out of his victims, citing the need of the institution to have them.”
Police are said to be investigating close to 50 more law enforcement officials whose names appear on a bribe payment record seized from a house owned by a southern businessman suspected of operating a major oil-smuggling ring in the South.