billionaire Vorayuth Yoovidhya

In the case of Red Bull scion Vorayuth Yoovidhya, who's confessed to the hit-and-run killing of a cop with his Ferrari, the authorities similarly gave the suspect extension after extension, letting the matter gradually ffade away as statute after statute of limitation expired. We should not let history repeat itself.

In 2012, Vorayuth Yoovidhya, the grandson of the energy-drink maker co-founder, Chaleo Yoovidhya, allegedly drove his Ferrari into the rear of a motorbike of a Bangkok policeman and fled the scene after dragging the body along the road for some distance. The officer died. Vorayuth initially blamed the ...

BANGKOK – A spokesperson for the Royal Thai Police assured Saturday (March 17) that the Interpol “Red Notice” for Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya is still in active but is not displayed on Interpol's website. RTP Spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanachareon said that the notice still is in the ...

BANGKOK – A spokesperson for the Royal Thai Police assured Saturday (March 17) that the Interpol “Red Notice” for Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya is still in active but is not displayed on Interpol's website. RTP Spokesman Pol Col Krissana Pattanachareon said that the notice still is in the ...

BANGKOK - The Interpol "Red Notice" for Thailand's Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya, wanted for hit-and-run charges, has disappeared from its website, Bangkok Post reported on Thursday (March 15). It was unclear when the notice - a worldwide request to find and arrest an individual pending extradition ...

Six months after Vorayuth Yoovidhya, the 32-year-old scion to the Red Bull energy drink empire, was the subject of an Interpol alert, a police spokesman said that notice remains active but the investigation has all but concluded. “We have reached the end of the road,” Col. Krissana Pattanacharoen said.

In the survey, conducted nationally by the Bangkok University Research Centre, 53.3 per cent of the respondents thought Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya – wanted over the 2012 hit-and-run death of a traffic policeman – would get away with it. The young man always seems to be on the run, ...

The poll also found that 53.3 per cent of respondents thought the case against Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya – who is wanted over a 2012 hit-and-run incident that left a Bangkok traffic policeman dead – wouldn't see Vorayuth punished. Fifty per cent of the respondents also believed the case ...

Vorayuth Yoovidhya, better known as "Boss", is wanted for drunkenly ploughing his Ferrari into a policeman riding a motorbike in Bangkok in 2012, dragging the officer to his death. After years giving prosecutors the run around, the 32-year-old billionaire has become an emblem for the impunity enjoyed by ...

Earlier this year we reported on the fatal hit-and-run of a Thai police officer allegedly committed by Vorayuth Yoovidhya, heir to the Red Bull brand and family fortune. Yoovidhya has remained one step ahead of the law for the past five years. But The Washington Post reports a new kink in his plans. Interpol ...

The family's confidential deals were inadvertently exposed by the jet-setting son Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, who attracted cries of impunity after repeatedly failing to show up in court for allegedly racing away in his Ferrari after slamming into a motorcycle cop in a deadly hit-and-run. Now the investigation ...

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai police said on Wednesday (May 3) they were trying to locate Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya who reportedly fled to Singapore on his private jet days before a warrant was issued for him over a fatal hit-and-run in 2012. After years of dodging prosecutors, 32-year-old billionaire ...

Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya has enjoyed a high-flying lifestyle since the fatal crash. Photo: AP. The case has focused attention on the impunity enjoyed by some of Thailand's rich and well-connected who are able to avoid or delay justice in the military-run country. Since Mr Vorayuth's black Ferrari allegedly ...

Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya has been a no-show for meetings with prosecutors on several occasions, complaining through his attorney of unfair treatment or citing duties abroad. A recent Associated Press report revealed that he's been living lavishly, traveling to Formula One races, snowboarding in Japan ...

Among the many uncertainties hanging over Thailand as it is steered hesitantly through a delicate political transition, its people could be sure of one thing this week. That Vorayuth Yoovidhaya, the grandson of the billionaire who invented the energy drink Red Bull, would once again fail to appear at a ...

Since the 2012 accident, Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya, now in his early '30s, has been seen “soaking in an Abu Dhabi pool, dining in Nice, France, and holding a $10,000 bicycle in Bangkok,” the wire says. All the while, he has missed numerous prosecutor orders to report to court on charges of speeding, ...