Bhanapot told to pay Bt546m tax
The Revenue Department will ask Bhanapot Damapong to pay Bt546.2 million in tax in regard to the sale of Shinawatra Computer and Communications shares, a source said.
The Assets Examination Com-mittee panel investigating the case summoned Revenue Department officials to ask about tax collection from Bhanapot, the brother of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's wife Pojaman. Meanwhile, Worapoj Yasa-datt, an executive of Patriot Business Consultants, gave a statement to the panel for three hours in relation to alleged corruption in the purchase of CTX bomb scanners for Suvarnabhumi Airport. Worapoj later said the panel told him not to reveal what he told them because it would be against criminal law. He said he came to give a statement as a witness and 80 per cent of the information he provided was what he testified before the Senate and Department of Special Investigation. He said he implicated about 10 people, including politicians, in his statement. Worapoj insisted he did not receive money or give money to politicians. He said he met former transport minister Suriya Jung-rungreangkit at Don Muang Air-port on October 9, 2003, without making an appointment to explain to him about the CTX scanner. Worapoj said he believed the AEC could only implicate "small fish''. "It is difficult to arrest big shots,'' he said.
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