AEC to get help from police
Royal Thai Police commissioner General Seripisut Temiyavej has agreed to provide police personnel to help the Assets Examination Committee (AEC) with its investigations, AEC chairman Nam Yimyaem said yesterday.
After their hour-long meeting at the AEC, Nam said Seripisut promised full support if the AEC requested help. He said the AEC had been facing a lack of personnel to investigate 13 corruption allegations and had earlier asked for the police to help but was faced with "bureaucracy and red tape". The police had earlier claimed the process to transfer police to work in another agency required two months. "After talking to the commissioner, he said we can get the police to help just by making a phone call because there are over 100,000 in the force,'' Nam said. Meanwhile, Attapol Yaisawang, spokesman for the Office of the Attorney-General, said the Attorney-General would rule today on whether it will prosecute Khunying Pojaman Shinawatra, her brother Bhanapot Damapong and Kanchana Honghern over alleged tax evasion on the share sales of Shinawatra Computer and Communications. Nam said if the Attorney-General decided to drop the case, the AEC would file the suit with the court as a damaged party. The AEC subcommittee probing allegations surrounding the purchase of the CTX bomb detectors summoned four board directors of Airport of Thailand to hear the charges. Board director Suthep Suebsantiwong will today defend himself against the charges.
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