Post by Soutpeel on Sept 20, 2018 8:36:18 GMT 7
Singapore fines Thai citizen for evading National Service
SINGAPORE: In the first prosecution of a National Service (NS) defaulter who is no longer a citizen, a 24-year-old Thai national and former Singapore citizen was fined S$6,000 (142,000 baht) on Tuesday.
Ekawit Tangtrakarn pleaded guilty last month to defaulting on his NS obligations, TODAY reported on Wednesday.
An engineer, he was born in Bangkok in 1993 and has lived there permanently since. However, although a Thai national he also gained Singapore citizenship when he was one-year-old, when his mother, a Singaporean, registered him there.
Ekawit admitted to remaining outside Singapore without a valid exit permit from April 17, 2010, until Oct 16, 2015. Another charge of being outside Singapore without a valid exit permit from October 2006 to April 2010 was considered during sentencing.
www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1542922/singapore-fines-thai-citizen-for-evading-national-service#cxrecs_s
SINGAPORE: In the first prosecution of a National Service (NS) defaulter who is no longer a citizen, a 24-year-old Thai national and former Singapore citizen was fined S$6,000 (142,000 baht) on Tuesday.
Ekawit Tangtrakarn pleaded guilty last month to defaulting on his NS obligations, TODAY reported on Wednesday.
An engineer, he was born in Bangkok in 1993 and has lived there permanently since. However, although a Thai national he also gained Singapore citizenship when he was one-year-old, when his mother, a Singaporean, registered him there.
Ekawit admitted to remaining outside Singapore without a valid exit permit from April 17, 2010, until Oct 16, 2015. Another charge of being outside Singapore without a valid exit permit from October 2006 to April 2010 was considered during sentencing.
www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1542922/singapore-fines-thai-citizen-for-evading-national-service#cxrecs_s
