Big Joke latest: Embattled former top cop takes off for America

Embattled former immigration chief Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn has gone to America. 

Sanook reported that government spokeswoman Patcharaporn Inthiang revealed that the former poster boy of the Royal Thai Police had put in a request for a holiday. 

He is expected to be back at the end of this month. 

Surachate – known throughout the Thai and English language press as Big Joke – was feeling the heat after his abrupt transfer from chief of immigration to a civil service role as special adviser in the PM’s office, said Sanook.

Naewna said in their headline reporting the same story that the LT-Gen was avoiding the “storm in his life”. 

Sanook said that exactly what he will do in the PM’s office on his return remains to be seen. 

Thai Visa / Sanook | Naewna

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