BANGKOK: A fugitive Thai millionaire wanted on charges including royal defamation broke cover to protest his innocence in a graft probe that has seen relatives of the crown prince’s wife arrested.
Nopporn Suppipat denied police accusations that he helped orchestrate the kidnapping of a man who owed him money, and said he fled to Cambodia on Nov 30 after discovering he would be charged under Thailand’s draconian lese majeste law.
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