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⁠Whoever coerces another person into giving or agreeing to give him or a different person a benefit which is characteristic of property, by exercising forcible violence against or by threatening to harm the life, body, liberty, or reputation of the coerced person or a third person to the degree that the coerced person so agrees, commits an offence of extortion and shall be punished with imprisonment not over five years and a fine not over ten thousand baht.

If the offence of extortion is committed—

⁠⁠by threatening to kill, threatening to assault the coerced person or another person so as to subject him to serious harm, or threatening to set fire to a thing belonging to the coerced person or another person; or

by carrying on the body a weapon for threatening;

the offender shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to seven years and a fine from one thousand baht to fourteen thousand baht.

⁠Whoever coerces another person into giving or agreeing to give him or a different person a benefit which is characteristic of property, by threatening to disclose a secret of which the disclosure would cause