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At 9:00 AM on May 27, 2026, the Bangkok Southern Criminal Court delivered its verdict in the defamation case brought by lawyer Kung against former actress Pu Mantana. The court sentenced Pu Mantana to 2 years imprisonment with a 2-year suspension, a fine of 80,000 baht, damages totaling 100,000 baht, a requirement to publish an apology in newspapers for 7 days, and payment of 10,000 baht in legal fees. Previously, on April 22, 2026, the Phra Nakhon District Court convicted Pu Mantana of fraud in a separate case brought by Lokmee Rasmi Thongsiripraisri and associates, sentencing her to 2 years without suspension, with the sentence to run consecutively with this defamation conviction. That fraud case involved alleged damages exceeding 3 million baht.

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