1.   Five policemen were charged Monday in the gems case, and ex-police chief Sawasdi Amornivat and General Pansiri Prawat remain under investigation.

2.   Two former Thai police officials have filed petitions with the interior ministry claiming they were being made scapegoats in the controversial Saudi gems case, an aide said Tuesday.

3.   Khoja ridiculed the autopsy report that said the wife and son of a key suspect in the gems case had died in an auto accident.

4.   Pratin had made solving the celbrated Saudi gems case his top priority.

5.   Seven policemen and a civilian are on trial in the gems case, and several others have been accused in that and the murder cases.

6.   Thai authorities on Friday arrested another suspect in the murders of the wife and son of a key suspect in a Saudi gems case, officials said.