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Attorney-General explains Tantai non-prosecution, citing no Movie2Free proceeds traced to six suspects
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Thailand’s Attorney-General decided not to prosecute Tantai Narongkoon and five other suspects for money laundering after finding no financial trail connecting them to proceeds from the alleged copyright offences involving the Movie2Free website.
Key facts
- The case file also failed to establish that money transferred by Tantai and several of the other suspects related to Movie2Free.
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- Tantai and suspects Nos.5 and 8–11 were not prosecuted for jointly committing the underlying commercial copyright offence in Special Case No.22/2020 involving Movie2Free.
- Thale separately confirmed that Tantai had contacted him to place an advertisement for the ufa678.com online gambling website on sakkarinsai8.com and transferred 6,000 baht to a Krungthai Bank account on August 17, 2018, as payment for the
- Suspect No.5 had registered the movie2free.com domain in July 2014, before the period covered by the alleged offences.
- 2542 (1999), subsequent amendments to the Act and Sections 83 and 91 of the Criminal Code.
Summary
The case file also failed to establish that money transferred by Tantai and several of the other suspects related to Movie2Free.
Instead, the identified payments concerned advertising on a separate website, including promotion of an online gambling site.