MCOT provides fund to find killer

MCOT provides fund to find killer

BANGKOK (AFP): Four Thai mass communications agencies are creating a reward fund to help find the killer of Saengchai Sunthornwat, the director of the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand (MCOT), a senior official of one of the agencies said yesterday.

Private donations would be pooled toward a reward to anyone who can provide information to lead to the arrest of the gunman who shot the MCOT boss in a Bangkok suburb last Thursday night, said Piphat Chanasongkram, program manager of the International News Network (INN).

He said police had suggested a reward of 500,000 baht (US$20,000). Any additional funds gathered would support mass communications education in Thailand, he added.

The radio network INN, the two national television stations of MCOT, the MCOT employees association and the Thai police's radio department will team up and use their various media channels to gather contributions, said Phiphat.