Xavier Andre Justo has been denied bail by the Bangkok South Criminal Court for fear he would flee the country. – Photo courtesy of the Royal Thai Police, October 26, 2015.
Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo who was sentenced to three years imprisonment for blackmailing his former employer, PetroSaudi International, was today denied bail pending the outcome of his appeal against the sentence.
Justo appeared at the Bangkok South Criminal Court for the hearing this morning accompanied by seven correctional officers as well as his Thai lawyer Worasit Piriyawiboon.
He failed to get bail as the court was concerned that he would use the opportunity to escape from Thailand.
The bail application offering to post a one million baht bail was submitted on October 14 together with an appeal against the three-year sentence that was imposed on him on August 17.
His case attracted interest in Malaysia as Justo had stolen 90GB of data from PetroSaudi International and given copies of them to Sarawak Report editor and founder Claire Rewcastle Brown as well owner of The Edge Media Group Tong Kooi Ong.
The Malaysian police are also interested to interview Justo in connection with his relationship with them as the data include business dealings between PetroSaudi International and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and there were claims of data tampering.
Justo had denied he tampered with the data and stated any tampering was done by others.
1MDB has been under the spotlight over its business dealings. – Bernama
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