Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen (Thai army general) was among 103 defendants found guilty on Wednesday (19 July, 2017) trial involving a major human trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh (a modern-day slavery). Viewers Corner News correspondent gathered that Lt. Gen. Manas Kongpaen will be punished double more than an ordinary citizen of Thailand who violated the same trafficking law because he was a government official. Pajjuban Aungkachotephan (a kingpin in the illegal trade) was also found guilty.
Source: Viewers Corner News.