Police ready to file charges against DSI official over his FB post on temple scandal

By The Nation

 

 

Police's Crime Suppression Division (CSD) is ready to file charges against Department of Special Investigation (DSI) senior investigator Pisitchai Sawangwattanakorn, if one or more of the four Bangkok temples mentioned in his Facebook posts as being implicated in the ongoing temple-fund embezzlement scandal, wished to press legal action.

 

CSD commander Pol Maj-General Maitri Chimcherd said on Tuesday that the police’s ongoing probe into the major scandal had not yet found any information about wrongdoing at the four temples –Wat Paknam Bhasi Charoen, Wat Phitchaya Yatikaram, Wat Bowonniwet Vihara and Wat Ratchasittharam – thus contradicting Pisitchai’s claim on his personal Facebook posts. 

 

Maitri also said there was no raid planned for Wat Suthat Thepwararam, another temple separately rumoured to be in the police’s sights.

 

Pisitchai was transferred on Monday from the DSI Bureau of Taxation Crime to an inactive post at the DSI Head Office of Special Case Experts, pending a probe for allegedly publishing inappropriate information about the police’s ongoing investigation. 

 

Pol Maj-General Kamol Rienracha, head of the Royal Thai Police’s Counter-Corruption Division that handled the embezzlement case investigation, said on Sunday that his investigators did not yet have final information from the fourth round of the investigation, and that he had no idea where Pisitchai had obtained the information that he chose to make public.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30347583

 

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Leaked information, threw a spanner in the works of the RTP's "investigation" AKA negotiation.

It's so stupid that defamation is being treated as seriously as large scale embezzlement.

Other than to protect crooks and to silence whistleblowers and activists criminal defamation laws are completely redundant 

Just another cog in the giant farcical machine.

I see the monks coming out winners here. They get to keep the embezzled funds and maybe win the defamation case. They have hit the quinella. Sweet Buddha smiles kindly!

does it quack, walk and look like a duck - well ……..

Yesterday the police was preparing charges, today they are ready to file them. Now, I'm left to wonder if tomorrow's headline will read: police have filed charges...