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Published on January 19, 2008

Noppadon Pattama, a legal adviser to the Shinawatra family, said an AEC source gave the press incorrect information about the money Pojaman had received from Shin Corporation in 1997.

The AEC source, he said, stated that the firm gave more than Bt1 billion to Pojaman, wife of deposed premier Thaksin, through three bank transfers.

Noppadon clarified that the firm had only returned her the money which she, as the biggest shareholder, had loaned it in order to ease difficulties caused by the baht depreciation in 1997.

Meanwhile, Chinnicha Wongsawat, Thaksin's niece, testified to the  AEC panel yesterday.

She insisted that the Bt100 million in her bank account frozen by the AEC was a business loan from her uncle Bhanapot Damapong.

Chinnicha is a daughter of Thaksin's sister Yaowapa Wongsawat and Bhanapot is Thaksin's brother-in-law.

Chinnicha had appealed to the AEC to release the frozen Bt100 million.

The AEC suspected the money was part of the proceeds from the sale of Shin Corp

to Singapore's Temasek Holdings.

The Nation