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Sikh businessman killed in Bangkok
WSN Bureau 

BANGKOK: 70-year-old Sikh businessman Sawat Settee, who was undergoing bankruptcy proceedings, was shot at by unknown assailants while he was driving through the Wattana district.  

A textile mill owner in the Sampheng area, he was found dead in his Volvo car at Klong Ton Nua in Wattana district with gunshot wounds in his neck. 

According to police reports, witnesses said that two men followed Sawat on a motorcycle and the one on the pillion fired before fleeing the scene.  Sawat attempted to turn around but failed and died on the spot.  

As the attack came while the bidding procedures for his business were still on, the police are crosschecking to see a connection between the two and are zeroing in on the motive for the crime.

According to the police the accident occured on Sukhumvit Road at Soi 61 in front of major cineplex, Ekamai.  The severity of the accident can be gauged from the fact that the police found that the victim was sitting in the driver's seat of the car and had a broken rib cage and skull.  The shooting and accident took place no more than 250 metres away from his home and apparently he was on his way to his factory in Prachinburi.

Mr. Sawat Settee was a Sikh millionaire like many other cloth merchants in the e Sampheng area of Bangkok. Police is investigating the matter as it is believed that the unresolved business disputes of Mr. Sawat with the bidder for his factory, whom he was to meet at 9 am in Prachinburi, on the day of his murder.

The police are also looking at the personal angle in the story as a few months back, Mr. Sawat's son too was found dead under mysterious circumstances.

The records of the police station at Prachinburi show the bidder on the factory to be Mr. Kusone Pongboonchan who bidded 52.2 million baht for the factory which was under the security of Krung Thai Bank (pcl), while this case is under special investigation.

LThe death of Mr. Sawat has put a big question mark over the clothing business of Sikhs in Thailand.

18 October 2008
 

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