Up to Prawit to resign from advising anti-graft body, says co-deputy PM Wissanu

By The Nation

 

This December 4, 2017 photo shows the ruling junta’s second-in-command, Deputy PM General Prawit Wongsuwan, covering his eyes while displaying a watch he is wearing during a photo call with other members of a new cabinet in Bangkok. / AFP PHOTO

 

It is up to luxury watch-wearing Deputy PM General Prawit Wongsuwan to decide whether he will step down from advising a government anti-graft body, said Deputy PM Wissanu Krea-ngam on Thursday.

 

Wissanu was responding to a call for PM General Prayut Chan-o-cha, to ask Prawit to resign from advising the board of directors of the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC).

 

“To resign or not it’s up to Prawit,” responded Wissanu. “And to oust him or not, it depends on another person.” Prawit has never attended meetings of the CNAC, he added.

 

Tortrakul Yomnak, chairman of a CNAC sub-committee of the board, submitted a letter to Prayut on behalf of the board chairman. The letter called on Prayut to take action against Prawit, by asking the scandal-clad deputy PM to resign from the post.

 

Prawit has been hit with an ongoing watch scandal since last December, when he was first seen wearing a luxury watch costing more than Bt2 million and a diamond ring. Prawit later was exposed by social media for wearing around 25 luxury watches with a worth estimated to exceed Bt30 million, and failing to declare them in his assets listing to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). 

 

The agency is investigating the origin of the watches. Prawit said they were borrowed from his friends, some of whom had died, and had already returned them to their owners.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30339463

 

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7 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Wissanu was responding to a call for PM General Prayut Chan-o-cha, to ask Prawit to resign from advising the board of directors of the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC).

 

“To resign or not it’s up to Prawit,” responded Wissanu. “And to oust him or not, it depends on another person.” Prawit has never attended meetings of the CNAC, he added.

 

Of course he won't have taken a single Satang in payment, that being the case...

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

1 hour ago, saakura said:

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

No difference. Both have ill suited names and proxies for the junta. 

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

No difference, just put more people on government payroll.

10 hours ago, saakura said:

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

It is nothing about what they all do. Everyone knows they do nothing. It's all about jobs for their mates and what they can get out of it. Plus a bit of networking on the latest corruption deals and how to get in on the action.

Nah MATE its up to YOU to sack him!!

Why I suddenly feel the need to puke?

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prawit has never attended meetings of the CNAC, he added.

No problem! He can stay! There is no conflict of interest as he doesn't attend any meeting! 

10 hours ago, saakura said:

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

Seems like you are looking for a lot of answers, my friend. I will try my best to straigthen this mess up.

1. The differens between NACC and CNAC? The only differens here is how the combination order of letters have been matched.

2. Gentlemen with big titles? You must means the trendy expression "BIGWIGS".

3. What they all do? Here there is no help to find. Nobody knows that.

There was that moment of heroic clarity from the Minister of Education.  Sadly he too succumbed to the rot of the junta.   He had to apologized for doing what was right.   Something nobody should be made to do who serves the people. 

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Prawit has never attended meetings of the CNAC, he added.

 

Bit like of Yinny and the rice pledging meetings...

She was out shopping for handbags, he is out shopping for watches :)

He should stay. He's obviously an expert in the subject!

18 minutes ago, madmitch said:

He should stay. He's obviously an expert in the subject!

Yes, Prawit can give really first-rate advice on how to gaudily flash corruption before the eyes of the 'peasants' and the entire world!

So the Junta, whose justification for an illegal power grab was stopping corruption, not only has Mr Rolex as Deputy PM, but he actually advises the CNAC (without ever having attended a meeting).

 

Meanwhile the other anti graft agency the NACC (which he has links to) has just given him yet another extension to come up with a more credible excuse for his undeclared million dollar watch collection which he claimed was "easy to explain" about 2 months ago.

 

You couldn't make it up. Having the NACC and CNAC trying to stop corruption is like having the fox guarding the hen house.

 

 

 

Can't dismiss the Court Jester, he provides vital stress relief for National Security

Edited February 23, 20188 yr by klauskunkel

4 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

 

Can't dismiss the Court Jester, he provides vital stress relief for National Security

Thanks a bunch. I was eating.

All resign please. l book the taxi

So the whole "Up to Me" thing comes from the very top?

Good thing that Thai will be the new English in the not too distant future 

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

 

Can't dismiss the Court Jester, he provides vital stress relief for National Security

There's a Kermit joke there somewhere 

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Centre for National Anti-Corruption

This might be the National Anti-Corruption Centre that is chaired by Prayut [obviously, the duplication in initials NACC might be confused with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), hence the reversal of initials to CNAC].

Its meetings are attended by representatives from agencies such as the Anti-Money Laundering Office, the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Government’s Sector Anti-Corruption Commission and commanders of the three armed forces, the national police chief and representatives of the private sector.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-chairs-first-meeting-national-anti-corruption-centre/

More detail in this:

http://www.anticorruption.in.th/2016/en/ourpartners1.php

It's stated that Prawit advises the board of directors of the CNAC. But he may actually be on the board of directors.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30339485

In any event, as Prayut's personal friend, military mentor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, it would be no surprise that Prawit would be part of CNAC.

What has CNAC done?

• gave Prayut a list of 152 allegedly corrupt officials for his consideration to suspend and transfer to an inactive duty station (vis a vis Article 44).
•  found no corruption in the casting of the statues of the seven former Thai kings at Rajabhakti Park and installed under the auspices of the military.

CNAC appears to be a direct creation of the Prayut junta whereas the NACC was created by an earlier junta-created constitution as an "Independent Organization."

On 2/22/2018 at 6:01 AM, saakura said:

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

Hard to credibly investigate corruption when you are both so corrupt?

On 2/22/2018 at 6:01 PM, saakura said:

So what is the difference between the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and the Centre for National Anti-Corruption (CNAC) ? Both the organisations seem to be filled with a lot of gentlemen with big titles. What do they all do i wonder ? 

See my post #21

He needs the money from this gig to buy his next watch, which will be somehow donated to him from a dying very good friend. Just a really lucky gut with watches.

On ‎23‎/‎02‎/‎2018 at 2:19 PM, klauskunkel said:

 

Can't dismiss the Court Jester, he provides vital stress relief for National Security

I wonder what watch he wore with this outfit and the 24c gold amplet?

On 22/02/2018 at 5:51 PM, snoop1130 said:

Prawit has never attended meetings of the CNAC, he added.

As in, another sideline job for which he get paid but doesn't perform, even once?