"I will take the documents to the AEC meeting on Tuesday to say that he had sent the explanations. After that we will pass on the documents to the responsible group. I haven't read the papers. They were in two large folders, on six points about Suvarnabhumi Airport," he said.

He denied the US Justice Department had informed Thailand that it did not find any irregularities in the procurement of CTX 9000 explosive-detection scanners from the US.

Nam said he had signed the set of regulations governing the AEC's operations but could not reveal their details until they are published in the Royal Gazette.

Meanwhile, the AEC is carrying on with its investigations into the nine cases passed on from the Auditor-General's Office, he said.

Although the AEC has a policy of not revealing any particulars of the cases it was examining, the latest case concerns the Ua Athorn affordable housing project initiated by the Thaksin Shinawatra administration.

AEC secretary Kaewsun Atibodhi said next Tuesday's meeting was expected to appoint members of sub-committees to help with the probes, discuss completed cases and assign the new Ua Athorn case to a group.

Each AEC member must handle at least two cases, so the AEC during its one-year term would take up least 20 cases, he said.

The AEC's 11 members have been divided into three working groups. Auditor-General Jaruvan Maintaka's team has shown the most progress by finishing all of its three assigned cases involving Suvarnabhumi Airport early this month.

The other groups are mainly looking into agricultural projects and the alleged tax evasion by Thaksin's children in the sale of Shin Corp to Temasek Holdings.

Budsarakham Sinlapalavan,

Bancha Khaengkhan

The Nation