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The Central Investigation Bureau is trying to wrap up 32 cases on lese majesty, including the alleged insult involving former PM's Office minister Jakrapob Penkair, CIB commissioner Lt General Worapong Chewpreecha said Wednesday.

Of the 32 cases, four reports have been forwarded for the prosecution review. Some 15 ongoing probes involve offensive messages posted in various Web sites.

"For the Jakrapob case, investigators cut the list of 18 witnesses to 10 in order to speed up the completion of their report," Worapong said.

He said the scaling down of questioning was deemed necessary because the remaining eight witnesses were unavailable to give statements.

The Nation