Former TV news anchor Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda lost his final appeal and the Supreme Court sent him to prison for eight years on Tuesday.
The decision ends the MCOT advertising revenue embezzlement case.
Sorrayuth, 53, was found guilty of supporting the wrongdoing of a government official who did not report extra commercials in Sorrayuth's news programme on state-run MCOT's TV channel from Feb 4, 2005 to April 28, 2006. This cost MCOT 138 million baht, its share of the revenue.
The court found that Sorrayuth's firm Raisom bribed the official, paying about 600,000 baht, to alter the records. Evidence showed that records of commercials were erased with correction fluid 17 times.
The Supreme Court shortened his total sentence to eight years, comprising 6 years and 2 years, from the 13 years and four months handed down by the Appeal Court three years ago.
Pichapa Iamsa-ard, 50, the MCOT official, was sentenced to a reduced 12 years in prison for malfeasance causing damage to the MCOT. Her term was shortened from 20 years.
