{"id":21054,"date":"2020-07-28T02:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/thai-police-launch-inquiry-into-dropped-charges-against-red-bull-heir"},"modified":"2020-07-28T02:48:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:48:52","slug":"thai-police-launch-inquiry-into-dropped-charges-against-red-bull-heir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21054","title":{"rendered":"Thai police launch inquiry into dropped charges against Red Bull heir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to public pressure, authorities will investigate the decision to drop charges against Vorayuth \u2018Boss\u2019 Yoovidhya<\/p>\n<p>Thai police opened an internal investigation Monday after charges were dropped against the billionaire Red Bull heir in a fatal hit-and-run case as outrage boiled over a perceived culture of impunity for the rich.<\/p>\n<p>Vorayuth \u201cBoss\u201d Yoovidhya, the grandson of the co-founder of energy drink giant Red Bull, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/04\/red-bull-heir-hit-run-thailand\">accused of killing a police officer<\/a> when he crashed his Ferrari in Bangkok in 2012.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/thai-police-launch-inquiry-into-dropped-charges-against-red-bull-heir\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to public pressure, authorities will investigate the decision to drop charges against Vorayuth \u2018Boss\u2019 YoovidhyaThai police opened an internal investigation Monday after charges were dropped against the billionaire Red Bull heir in a fatal hi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21063,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions\/21063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}