ECT urged to pursue legal actions against FFP leader, execs

[webfact]

ECT urged to pursue legal actions against FFP leader, execs

By THE NATION

 

 

Srisuwan Janya, an activist and secretary-general of the Society for Defence of the Thai Constitutions, submitted a letter to the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) on Monday (February 24) urging it to pursue legal actions against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and 16 executives of the recently dissolved Future Forward Party (FWP) for violation of 2017 Organic Law on Political Parties.

 

The Constitutional Court on February 21 ordered the Future Forward Party dissolved on the grounds that a loan of Bt191.2 million its wealthy leader Thanathorn extended to party members was a violation of the organic law’s Section 66 that limits the amount of money that can be collected in donations at Bt10 million, and Section 72 that prohibits political parties and their members from receiving money or assets from any sources when they know they are unlawful or have reasonable doubts of being unlawful.

 

The court also revoked party executives’ right to contest in any elections for 10 years and prohibited them from registering a new party for the same length of time.

 

“The penalty for violation of Section 66 will include imprisonment for up to five years, a fine of up to Bt100,000 or both for the donator,” said Srisuwan.

 

“Meanwhile, the party that received illegal donations will be barred from the next election and fined up to Bt1 million and its executives be banned from politics for five years, whereas the money in excess of Bt10 million, or equal to Bt181 million in FWP’s case, must be seized and deposited to the Political Party Development Fund”.

 

“Furthermore, FWP had used its revenues that came from fundraising, donations and souvenir selling to pay back the loan to Thanathorn, which violated Section 87 of the organic law that prohibits the use of a party’s revenues for purposes other than the party’s political activities,” added Srisuwan. “The violation of this section is punishable with 5-10 years imprisonment and fine of Bt100,000-200,000, or both.”

 

“The Society for Defence of the Thai Constitutions wishes to urge the ECT to pursue legal actions against Thanathorn and FWP executives to set a standard for other political parties in Thailand. If the ECT ignores this request they might be violating the Criminal Code Section 157, which prohibits an official from not exercising any of his functions to the injury of any person,” added Srisuwan.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30382731

 

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[keith101]

What an absolute loser

[PatOngo]

9 minutes ago, keith101 said:

What an absolute loser

I would have called him a tosser!

[keith101]

15 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I would have called him a tosser!

I did that yesterday .

[Artisi]

Will this follow the investigation into the convicted drug dealer currently a member of the dodgy parliament, or is that different? 

[holy cow cm]

He is just the biggest turdpie.

[Scot123]

There is still a land deal that has not been adequately explained as with the now stolen watches from a dead friend which have still not been returned or how a bunch of unelected  D's who were never on any ballot paper (in fact to scared to even endorse a party) managed to keep their unelected positions!! What about the meal when campaigning was banned but hay we have to shhhhhh never mention shootings of innocents at the temple, removing of the plaque or gold mine........ The list goes on and on..... Shhhhhhhhh

[DLock]

Did Cha Cha ever recite the constitution correctly, or was that just overlooked as unimportant?

 

I forget how it ended up?

[Artisi]

18 minutes ago, DLock said:

Did Cha Cha ever recite the constitution correctly, or was that just overlooked as unimportant?

 

I forget how it ended up?

What constitution? 

[BobbyL]

You only have to look at him in this photo to see where his true allegiances lie. 

[BobbyL]

1 hour ago, DLock said:

Did Cha Cha ever recite the constitution correctly, or was that just overlooked as unimportant?

 

I forget how it ended up?

No they didn't, and they were still fully endorsed by the main man. That is the worry. 

[ParkerN]

Ah yes. Of course, the shills emerge from the woodwork. This guy would be better keeping his nose out, no matter how much he would like it to be brown.

 

This is not a time for doing, it's a time for waiting and watching what other people do. May not get you a brown nose but there are benefits...

[ParkerN]

1 hour ago, BobbyL said:

No they didn't, and they were still fully endorsed by the main man. That is the worry. 

The same one that approved to [deliberate] ommission in the first place. No help coming from that direction.

 

 

[nobodysfriend]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

whereas the money in excess of Bt10 million, or equal to Bt181 million in FWP’s case, must be seized and deposited to the Political Party Development Fund

And that Fund is supervised ( controlled ) by whom ?

 

16 hours ago, webfact said:

“The Society for Defence of the Thai Constitutions wishes to urge the ECT to pursue legal actions against Thanathorn and FWP executives to set a standard for other political parties in Thailand.

That standard means : any political party that gets a lot of voters and dares to be critical towards the ruling party , will face dissolution and criminal pursuits .

Welcome to thai democracy ...

[klauskunkel]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Society for Defence of the Thai Constitutions

Thai Constitutions, notice the plural... Defend them all, the good and the bad, the funny and the serious, but especially the military ones.

[Scott Tracy]

The Society for Defence of the Thai Constitutions

 

I wonder where they get their funds from.