Billionaire businessman Nopporn Suppipat – wanted over the alleged abduction and intimidation of someone he owed Bt120 million to – may have travelled to Canada after hiding in Cambodia, a police source said yesterday. The source, who is attached to a task force of senior detectives under the Metropolitan Police Bureau, based his speculation on […]
BANGKOK — An 43-year-old energy tycoon involved in the high-profile corruption scandal among Thailand’s top law enforcers has fled the country, police say. Nopporn Suppipat, who was ranked the 31st richest man in Thailand by Forbes last year, is wanted on charges of lese majeste and illegal detention in connection with the widening graft case […]
BANGKOK – The Office of Attorney-General has yet to take up the corruption case against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, due to a lack of sufficient evidence submitted by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). “The case filed by the NACC is still incomplete,” said Chutichai Sakakorn, a leading member of the Office of Attorney-General (AG). […]
BANGKOK — In a new effort to combat corruption among Thailand’s law enforcement agencies, the Metropolitan Police department has started giving out monetary rewards to officers who refuse to accept bribes. Today, a traffic police officer received a 10,000 baht reward for declining a 100 baht bribe from a motorcyclist. Read more: khaosodenglish.com
Election cheaters and corrupt politicians risk being banned from politics for life under a provision in the Provisional Constitution, warned Professor Bovornsak Uwanno, secretary-general of King Prajadhipok’s Institute, at a seminar on Thailand’s reform held on Thursday. Unlike previous charters which, among others, focused on corruption in government bureaucracy, he said that the current interim […]
A court in Xinyu, China, has sentenced three anti-corruption activists to prison for causing public disturbance. Wei Zhongping and Liu Ping received a prison sentence of six-and-a-half years under charges of “using evil religion to sabotage law enforcement” and “picking fights and provoking trouble”. A third activist Li Sihua was also convicted for the last […]
BANGKOK, March 27 – Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today asked to extend the deadline to clarify allegations of malfeasance in the rice pledging scheme, scheduled for March 31. Her lawyers acted on her behalf in seeking a permission from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to prolong the required clarification for 45 days due to […]
BANGKOK, March 13 – Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Thursday resolved to extend the dateline for caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to defend herself against negligence of duty charges in connection with her government’s rice pledging scheme. The caretaker premier earlier assigned her lawyer Norawit Lalaeng to acknowledge charges on her behalf. Shortly afterward, […]
