Thailand Law Library

by Thailand Lawyer

Chapter 2: Offence of Extortion, Blackmail, Robbery and Gang-Robbery

Whoever, compels a person to give or to agree to give him or the other person a benefit in the nature of being a property by committing an act of violence or by a threat to commit violence against the life, body, liberty, reputation or property of the compelled person or a third person, so that the compelled person submits to the same is said to commit extortion, and shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding five years and fined not exceeding ten thousand Baht. If extortion be committed:

• By threatening to cause death or grievous bodily harm to the compelled person or the other person or to set fire to the property of the compelled person or other person; or
• By a person carrying an arm, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of six months to seven years and fined of one thousand to fourteen thousand Baht.

Whoever, compelling the other person to give or to agree to give oneself or the other person the benefit in the nature to be the property by threatening to disclose the secret, to cause injury to the compelled person or the third person, up to the compelled person submit to the same, such person to be said to commit blackmail, and shall be imprisoned as from one year to ten years and fined as from two thousand Baht to twenty thousand Baht.

Whoever commits theft by doing any act of violence or threatening to do any act of violence immediately in order:

1. To facilitate the theft or taking away of the thing;
2. To obtain delivery of the thing;
3. To take hold of the thing;
4. To conceal the commission of such offence; or
5. To escape from arrest, is said to commit robbery, and

shall be punished with imprisonment of five to ten years and fined of ten thousand to twenty thousand Baht.

If such offence is committed under the circumstances as provided in any subsection of Section 335, or being to commit against the ox, buffalo, mechanical device or machinery of the agriculturist to possess for purpose of carrying on agricultural pursuit, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of ten to fifteen years and fined of twenty thousand to thirty thousand Baht.

If the robbery causes bodily or mental harm to the other person, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of ten to twenty years and fined of twenty thousand to forty thousand Baht.

If the robbery causes grievous bodily harm to the other person, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years and fined of thirty thousand to forty thousand Baht. If the robbery causes death to the other person, the offender shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life.

If the robbery is committed against the thing according to the first paragraph of Section 335-2, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of ten to fifteen years and fined of twenty thousand to thirty thousand Baht.

If such robbery is committed in the place as provided in the second paragraph of Section 335-2 also, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of ten to twenty years and fined of twenty thousand to forty thousand Baht.

If the robbery according to the first and second paragraph causes bodily or mental harm to the other person, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years and fined of thirty thousand to forty thousand Baht.

If the robbery according to the first or the second paragraph causes grievous bodily harm to the other person, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of fifteen to twenty years. If the robbery according to the first or second paragraph causes death to the other person, the offender shall be punished with death.