Panel to issue Prawit watch probe update to NACC

[webfact]

Panel to issue Prawit watch probe update to NACC

By The Nation

 

Deputy Prime Minsiter General Prawit Wongsuwan

 

The anti-corruption panel investigating the luxury watch scandal involving Deputy Prime Minsiter General Prawit Wongsuwan will submit the results of its preliminary inquiry to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) next week. This follows a letter of clarification submitted to the panel by the general.

 

NACC secretary-general Worawit Sooksombon said on Tuesday that the panel had received a 38-page letter, which explains all the 25 watches that were seen on Prawit’s wrist on various occasions but were not reported as assets to the NACC as required by law.

 

However, Worawit said, the probe was not yet complete because the panel needed to talk to two more witnesses. Also, the companies that imported the watches have not yet submitted evidence to the panel.

 

Worawit said the panel would submit its initial findings to the NACC so that it could consider the case and suggest to the panel what else needs to be done in the investigation. This possibly includes inviting Prawit to meet the panel in person, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30341332

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-20

[Eligius]

Preliminary results:  No wrongdoing of any kind here. Utmost probity. Everything is above board and above all reproach. Any views to the contrary were based on a 'misunderstanding'. In fact, the Thai nation should look to this gentleman of a million watches as an exemplar of  all that is moral and best about 'Thai-ness'.

 

Final result:  As above - case closed!

 

 

 

Edited March 20, 2018 by Eligius

[Darcula]

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

This possibly includes inviting Prawit to meet the panel in person, he said.

 

That's a radical move. Actually inviting the accused to explain in person.

 

Edited March 20, 2018 by Darcula

[Lemonltr]

I hope that they 'man up' and offer Prawit a written apology for putting him through this unfair ordeal when it's finalised.

[Tilacme]

9 minutes ago, Darcula said:

 

That's a radical move. Actually inviting the accused to explain in person.

 

And even more radical would be to broadcast it live on tv 

[webfact]

NACC panel to submit initial findings on Prawit case

By THE NATION

 

 

THE PANEL investigating the luxury watch scandal involving Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan will submit the results of its preliminary inquiry to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) next week.

 

The submission follows the general’s submission to the panel of a fourth letter of clarification about the watches he has been seen wearing, which are said to have a combined value of Bt30 million.

 

NACC secretary-general Worawit Sukboon said yesterday that the panel had received a 38-page letter, which explained the origins of the 25 watches that had been seen on Prawit’s wrist on various occasions but were not reported as assets to the NACC as required by law.

 

However, Worawit said the probe was not yet complete because the panel needed to talk to two more witnesses. Also, the companies that imported the watches had not yet submitted evidence to the panel. 

 

Worawit said the panel would submit its initial findings to the NACC so that it could consider the case and suggest to the panel what else needed to be done in the investigation. This possibly could include inviting Prawit to meet the panel in person, he said.

 

Meanwhile, volunteer social worker Ticha Nanakorn plans to pressure the NACC to speed up its investigation.

 

Ticha announced on Facebook yesterday that she would submit a letter today to NACC president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, urging him to take legal action against Prawit. 

 

Ticha initiated a petition at Change.org on January 31 to press Prawit to keep his promise to step down if citizens no longer wanted him in government. As of February 15, 80,018 people had backed the petition calling for the minister to resign from the Cabinet. Ticha has presented the results to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

Ticha posted that even though Prawit had submitted his fourth written explanation about the origin of the watches to the NACC last week, it remained unclear whether the agency would summon him for a meeting or take any other action. 

“Society is curious about the NACC’s action on this case,” Ticha wrote. 

 

She said activists would stage a symbolic demonstration at NACC headquarters today to indicate that delayed action was unjust and to reaffirm their opinion that Prawit must resign.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30341354

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-21

[RichardColeman]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

This possibly includes inviting Prawit to meet the panel in person, he said.

Wonder how many times he would ask for that meeting to be rescheduled !

[chama]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

As of February 15, 80,018 people had backed the petition calling for the minister to resign from the Cabinet.

That's going to cost the Toad a lot of Baht to get enough Thais to say they want him to stay....but somehow he'll hop on.

[chama]

On 3/20/2018 at 4:35 AM, Darcula said:

 

That's a radical move. Actually inviting the accused to explain in person.

 

Dangerous on their part as well. If the Toad has to sit before the committee he will have to be able to spin his web without carefully considering the ramifications of his responses and will likely say something he will regret. But no worries...The Toad will hop away unscathed with his protective umbrella impenetrable. 

[cookieqw]

not much of an anti-corruption panel if it has to ask the NACC what it should do next ?

[rkidlad]

15 minutes ago, cookieqw said:

not much of an anti-corruption panel if it has to ask the NACC what it should do next ?

They all wanna act big and powerful until it comes to taking responsibility for something serious. Then it's someone else's job or fault. 

[Eligius]

Does anyone, at this late stage in the corrupt game, really think that, even if he does have to appear before a live panel, Prawit will have anything to fear? Oh pleaaaaaasssseee! Do people still not get it? This guy is untouchable. If he were not, he would have been kicked out long ago (like that minister who dared to say that delaying the November 'election' might look bad - and out he goes, almost immediately).

 

Sometimes I get really exasperated with people who think that power-wielders like Prawit and Prayut are subject to law. They are above all law. They are the law-givers, the law-changers, the law manufacturers, the law-smashers, the law-interpreters, the law-inventors -   THEY ARE THE LAW OF THE LAND, the be-all and end-all of Thailand now. 

 

They are the men who hold Thailand in the palm of their hand - and they are answerable to NO ONE (because the Thais CHOOSE to allow them, year after year after year, TO BE ANSWERABLE TO NO ONE). So (just so I don't fall foul of some prohibition or speech-rule on this site) - these men are democrats (they are not D's - that forbidden word - of course not - how could they be?!)  - they are carrying  out the will of the Thais and have the de facto blessing of the Thais. Four long years have shown that. 

 

Of course, in a free country and on a free website, I might  express myself rather differently ...

 

 

 

 

Edited March 21, 2018 by Eligius

[YetAnother]

On 3/20/2018 at 3:29 PM, Eligius said:

Preliminary results:  No wrongdoing of any kind here. Utmost probity. Everything is above board and above all reproach. Any views to the contrary were based on a 'misunderstanding'. In fact, the Thai nation should look to this gentleman of a million watches as an exemplar of  all that is moral and best about 'Thai-ness'.

 

Final result:  As above - case closed!

 

 

 

piglet is guilty; why so long ?

o, apologies to the thinking; forgot payoffs and  threats and 'future favors'