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Film festival bribery allegations well founded

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2008-03-17 17:20:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery allegations Simply put: the allegations were well founded, says Police Colonel Piyawat Kingket, the DSIs special criminal litigation commissioner However, according to The Nation, Piyawat said the DSI does not have the authority to probe the case any further because the suspects were high-ranking officials The National Counter...
 
Tags: festival, film festival management, tourism authority, authority, department, justice department, tat contracts, tat, film festival probe
 
 
 
 
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Thai agency wraps up festival bribery probe

2008-02-25 10:46:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
 
...bribery scandal, the Bangkok Post reports today that Thailand's Department of Special Investigation has completed its probe, and it will forward its case to the National Counter Corruption Commission Here is more from the story ( cache It was unclear what that will mean to the pending case against former Tourism Authority of Thailand...
 
Tags: thai, probe, investigation, special investigation, festival, justice department, justice, department, thai government
 
 
 
 
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Bangkok International Film Festival scheduled for July

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2008-03-03 16:42:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery scandal I wonder who's programming the festival? And, I wonder what were the results of the Department of Special Investigation's probe into the festival scandal More information Thai agency wraps up film festival probe Producer, wife plead not guilty in Bangkok International Film Festival bribery scandal Indictments handed down...
 
Tags: festival, film festival probe, bribery scandal, scandal, festival scandal, thailand, tourism authority, location thailand, probe
 
 
 
 
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Tentative date for Bangkok International Film Festival: July 21 to 30

2008-03-11 13:36:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
 
...bribery scandal that still hangs over the event The story continues We've set up the tentative date of July 21 to 30, but we still have to wait for the approval from the governor and to sort out other details," a TAT international spokesman said This year, the TAT will act simply as a host, and will transfer the operation to the Federation...
 
Tags: festival, international, tat international spokesman, tat, film festival probe, tentative, thai director, july, thai films
 
 
 
 
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Graft agency to look at Juthamas' advisory role

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2008-03-13 17:33:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery allegation against Juthamas in connection with the organizing of the Bangkok International Film Festival. The Department of Special Investigation recently concluded its probe of the case, and has forwarded its findings to the NCCC, but those findings have yet to be revealed More information Tentative date for Bangkok International...
 
Tags: agency, probe, juthamas, probe allegations, film festival probe, thai agency wraps, current tourism authority, tat deputy governor, panel
 
 
 
 
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Overseas Corruption Probe Worries Hollywood

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2008-06-09 09:51:03 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...bribery statute makes a September Tinseltown debut The F.C.P.A., after decades of being ignored, is ensnaring an increasing array of companies, from energy exploration and telecom concerns to medical-device makers and freight forwarders, for alleged kickbacks to government officials around the globe. Now, even Hollywood is in prosecutors'...
 
Tags: hollywood, hollywood types, bribery, once-dormant bribery statute, hollywood folks nervous, overseas corruption, international film festival, september tinseltown debut, prosecutors
 
 
 
 
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The Bangkok International Film Festival will go on

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2008-07-30 02:08:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery scandal in which a former TAT governor is alleged to have accepted US$1.7 million in bribes from American film producer Gerald Green and his wife Patricia in exchange for awarding the Greens' company a management contract to run the festival. The Greens were arrested last year in Los Angeles by the FBI. But in Thailand, though an...
 
Tags: film, festival, film industries, festival director, film industry, film culture, national film associations, asean region, thailand
 
 
 
 
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Michael Clayton (2007)

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2007-12-15 11:38:42 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...bribery, standover tactics, or nefarious means, Michael simply has the ability to read a situation and construct the best strategy for easing the pain. Early in the film we see Michael called to counsel Greer (Denis OHare), a creep of a client whos just knocked a man down in a hit-and-run accident. Michael is dispassionate about reciting the...
 
Tags: michael, michael clayton, michael simply, michael picks, film, film centers, michael fails, no-frills noir film, michael considers
 
 
 
 
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毒婦伝

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2007-10-16 19:37:00 by 追放マーク in Outcast Cinema
...bribery scheme involving tobacco crops. When her parents are tortured (yes, again) and killed, she comes after Judayu, the powerful magistrate who was responsible for it. Mixing it up this time around are a group of orphans (including Reiko Oshida), watched over by a ronin and former swordmaster played by yakuza movie stalwart Tatsuo Umemiya....
 
Tags: films, hard-to-see films, janus films, ghost films, shintoho films, okatsu, okatsu swears vengeance, synapse films, female demon ohyaku