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Thailand Indicts Former Police Chief In Ferrari Crash Cover-Up

Thai Police chief Gen. Somyot Poompanmoung speaks to reporters at the police headquarters, in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Thailand prosecutors have indicted a former national police chief and several others in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 Ferrari crash involving an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune. The incident resulted in the death of a police officer.

The former Police Chief, along with the former Deputy Attorney General and six other individuals, were arraigned in a Bangkok court on charges of conspiring to alter the recorded speed of the Ferrari driven by Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya. This alteration was allegedly done to help him evade a speeding charge.

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