Article 248: Single punishment for the counterfeiter who also uses
Statutory text (Thai original)
ถ้าผู้กระทำความผิดตามมาตรา ๒๔๐ มาตรา ๒๔๑ หรือมาตรา ๒๔๗ ได้กระทำความผิดตามมาตราอื่นที่บัญญัติไว้ในหมวดนี้อันเกี่ยวกับสิ่งที่ตนปลอมหรือแปลงนั้นด้วย ให้ลงโทษผู้นั้นตามมาตรา ๒๔๐ มาตรา ๒๔๑ หรือมาตรา ๒๔๗ แต่กระทงเดียว
English translation
If a person who commits an offence under Section 240, Section 241, or Section 247 also commits an offence under another Section provided in this Chapter in relation to the thing that person counterfeited or altered, that person shall be punished under Section 240, Section 241, or Section 247, as the case may be, as a single offence only.
ThaiLawOnline translation, written from the Thai original and verified
Firm annotation
Section 248 creates no offence and prescribes no penalty. It is a rule about how to punish a person who has already offended under Section 240 (counterfeiting currency), Section 241 (altering currency) or Section 247 (those acts done to foreign currency), and who then also offends under another section of this Chapter in relation to the very thing that person counterfeited or altered. In that case the court punishes under Section 240, Section 241 or Section 247 alone, as a single offence. So a counterfeiter who afterwards holds the notes in order to put them into use under Section 243, or puts them into circulation, is not punished twice: the later dealing is absorbed into the counterfeiting. Two limits matter. The rule benefits only the person who did the counterfeiting or altering, so a confederate who merely passes the notes is punished under his own section in the ordinary way. And it applies only to the same thing that person made, so dealings in other counterfeit currency remain separate offences. Section 263 is the equivalent rule in the chapter on seals, stamps and tickets.
Why this matters in practice
ในทางปฏิบัติ มาตรานี้เป็นข้อที่ควรยกขึ้นต่อสู้เมื่อพนักงานอัยการฟ้องหลายกระทงจากการกระทำชุดเดียวกัน เช่น ฟ้องทั้งฐานปลอมเงินตราตามมาตรา 240 และฐานมีไว้เพื่อนำออกใช้ตามมาตรา 244 เพราะกฎหมายกำหนดให้ลงโทษตามมาตรา 240 แต่กระทงเดียว สิ่งที่ต้องแสดงคือความผิดอื่นนั้นเกี่ยวกับสิ่งที่จำเลยปลอมหรือแปลงเอง มิใช่ของที่ได้มาจากผู้อื่น ทั้งนี้บทนี้ใช้ภายในหมวดความผิดเกี่ยวกับเงินตราเท่านั้น ความผิดตามหมวดอื่น เช่น ฉ้อโกง ไม่อยู่ในบังคับของมาตรานี้
Décisions de la Cour suprême interprétant cette section
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 901/2565 (2022)
Section 248 gives a single punishment only for offences inside this Chapter: where the same person offends under Section 240, 241 or 247 and also commits another offence in this Chapter in respect of the thing counterfeited or altered, he is punished under Section 240, 241 or 247 alone. It did not operate here. The counterfeiting count under Section 240 was dismissed and not appealed, and fraud under Section 341 lies outside this Chapter. The defendant was convicted of jointly possessing counterfeit foreign banknotes for circulation under Section 244 read with Section 247, and separately of joint fraud, and the Supreme Court held these are separate offences punished count by count under Section 91, because the intended results differ and the acts can be separated. Possessing counterfeit notes for circulation is complete as soon as they are received in the knowledge that they are counterfeit, not when they are passed.
The defendant and others held counterfeit euro banknotes of a foreign government for circulation and also committed fraud. The Court held that possessing the counterfeit foreign banknotes for circulation was a separate offence from the fraud, as the two involved different criminal intents, and the charges included Section 248.
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Arrêt de la Cour suprême n° 3986/2564 (2021)
Keeping a large quantity of counterfeit foreign banknotes at home in a state ready to be used or passed to others constitutes possessing them for circulation under the currency offences.
The defendant kept many counterfeit foreign banknotes at home, ready to use or hand to others, and displayed them to an undercover officer. The Court held this amounted to possessing counterfeit currency for circulation.
Curated decisions with case numbers verified against the Supreme Court database. English renderings are the firm's editorial translation for study.
Cited in 13 Supreme Court decisions (1960 to 2023)
Décisions de citation sélectionnées
- Decision 6126/2540 (1997)
- Decision 553/2536 (1993)
- Decision 1969/2505 (1962)
- Decision 4930/2557 (2014)
- Decision 332/2503 (1960)
- Decision 92/2521 (1978)
- Decision 901/2565 (2022)
- Decision 3986/2564 (2021)
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Le plus souvent cité aux côtés de
- Article 244 13
- Article 240 12
- Article 91 10
- Article 247 10
- Article 78 8
- Article 246 8
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