AEC gets lottery go-ahead
The Assets Examination Committee can continue with its indictment process against those responsible for the controversial two- and three-digit lottery on its own if it agrees to not investigate further five crucial points raised by the Office of the Attorney General, OAG spokesman Thanaphit Moolphruek said yesterday.
He said the AEC-OAG joint investigation would continue and a joint meeting would be held on Friday to work out the differences.
Thanaphit said he did not think the AEC's decision to not comply with the OAG's recommendation over the five crucial points was an inter-agency conflict.
An OAG source said an AEC minority agreed that only four people should be indicted for their direct involvement in pushing for the lottery - and not 47 - who were mainly ministers who attended the Cabinet meeting on August 8, 2003, that approved the controversial lottery.
The source did not name the four individuals or say whether one of them was former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
One was a Cabinet member and the two others were officials of the Government Lottery Office.
Thanaphit said the five AEC members who were part of the joint investigation had insisted in a meeting last Friday that the AEC indictment against the 47 people had been supported by solid and sufficient evidence.
"The AEC can carry on with its indictment process on its own, as permitted by law," he added.
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