Somchai Khunpluem

Somchai Khunpluem is a Thai politician, businessman and organized crime boss, also known under his nickname Kamnan Poh. He is highly influential in his home province of Chonburi and the whole eastern region and has therefore been dubbed "godfather of Chonburi" or "godfather of the east" by Thai media.

Somchai was born as the son of a village headman, the second of eight siblings. He dropped out of school after grade 4, started working as a teenager and later became a very influential man. He was engaged in illegal activities during the Vietnam war and the Cambodian Civil War when Somchai became a key intermediary between the central government and multinational and local investors which spurred the rise of his economic and political influence.

He married Satil Sancharoen, daughter of a fish trader. He is the father of Sontaya Kunplome, leader of the Phalang Chon Party, president of Pattaya United F.C., and minister of culture under Yingluck Shinawatra.

Politician Somchai Khunpluem were born on Thursday, birthstone is Sapphire, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Ox, it is 272 days until Somchai Khunpluem next birthday.

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