AEC close to wrapping up report into airport bomb scanner case

AEC member Udom Fuangfoong said yesterday the panel was expected to wrap up the CTX case and send it to the Attorney-General's Office for prosecution at the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions.

The AEC earlier assigned its CTX investigative committee to revise its report to add the charges of collusion in bidding on government projects, he said.

The extra charges were needed because the US Justice Department had concluded that the CTX supplier paid bribes to Thai authorities to win the contract, he said.

The documents from the US Justice Department will be used as evidence in the case, he said.

If the AEC can finish reviewing the CTX file in the morning, in the afternoon it will take up the case of alleged abuse of authority by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in having the Export-Import Bank of Thailand open a credit line for Burma.

The AEC may consider setting up a joint committee with the Attorney-General's Office to work on the Exim Bank case after state prosecutors declined to indict Thaksin.

They had wanted the AEC to first interrogate Surakiart Sathirathai, who was foreign minister at the time, he added.