BANGKOK, 22nd July 2018 (NNT) – Thailand’s new anti-corruption law has officially been brought into force. The new version of the anti-corruption law was published in the Royal Gazette on July 20. In this final version, major changes include a provision that allows current members of the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission to continue […]
The Supreme Court has sentenced fugitive politician Vatana Asavahame and 10 others to between three and six years in jail in connection with the Klong Dan wastewater treatment project, one of the largest and longest-running corruption cases in the country’s history. The decision, read out on Friday in the Dusit District Court, overturned a 2013 […]
The Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) will confiscate the assets of three former top officials of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and 12 other accomplices worth 88 million baht for corruption in the state funds for the destitutes. The decision was reached at the meeting of the AMLO’s financial transaction committee after it […]
Graft-busters investigating systemic embezzlement of funds from protection centres for the destitute report the total theft uncovered now exceeds 100 million baht and has been found in 49 provinces. Lt Col Kornthip Daroj, secretary-general of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission, said on Monday that from Feb 13 to March 18 investigators had to found 104 […]
The military-installed government of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has made progress in its fight against graft in the past one year, scoring two points higher in 2017 to 37 from 2016, and upgrading the country to be on the 96th place from a total of 180 countries in the list. The latest ranking of […]
The government has succeeded in arousing public awareness in rejecting and not tolerating corruption, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in his nation-wide weekly address Friday night (Dec 8). He pointed out at the Corruption Situation Index of the Thai Chamber of Commerce University in June this year which showed that 86 percent of the respondents […]
Thailand believes its corruption ranking in international communities will improve this year after the country has shown strong determination to curb and suppress corruption by setting a four-year national stratagy to tackle the problem drastically. This was voiced by a member of the powerful National Anti- Corruption Commission (NACC) today while the graft buster is […]
BANGKOK, 14 July 2017 (NNT) – The National Council for Peace and Order has opened a new channel to receive complaints about alleged corruption by state officials. Col. Winthai Suvaree, spokesman of the NCPO and spokesman of the Royal Thai Army, said on Thursday that the new complaint center has been set up on the […]
