webfact Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Former House speaker and ex-House secretary-general face probe over shady procurement dealsBANGKOK: -- The National Anti-Corruption Commission has set up a panel to investigate the conduct of former House speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont and former House secretary-general Suvichak Narkwatchara over some dubious procurement deals.The panel is to be led by Mr Pakdi Pothisiri, a member of the NACC.The dubious procurement deals include the followings: 36 million baht spending for the renovation of the conference room of the budget committee on the third floor of the parliament; 24 million baht receipt for the renovation of the strategic conference room of the House of Representatives; 13.8 million baht bill for the renovation of King Rama VII statue; 2.6 million baht cost for the construction of the ticketing room and 15 million baht costs for the purchase of 240 digital wall clocks.Mr Pakdi said that once the NACC endorsed the probe panel, both Mr Somsak and Mr Suvichak would be notified about members of the panel and whether they would object to any of them.If there is no objection from the two men within 14 days, the panel will immediately start the enquiry.Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/former-house-speaker-ex-house-secretary-general-face-probe-shady-procurement-deals/ -- Thai PBS 2014-08-28 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Within 14 days will they still be in the country ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siampolee Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Surely not a case of wrongdoing from an ex national leader is it ? Now let's see. What was their political allegiance, who was their manipulator and how much might the commissions on these scams schemes have been and where did all the commissions go to ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 just check suppliers there must be a connection ,or get a quote I am so sure that all is above board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post EricBerg Posted August 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2014 Sounds good. Investigate them and if they enriched themselves put them in court. Buttttttttt if found guilty please put them in prison. Only if the big fish serve time the people will believe reform and participate actively in a better society. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramrod711 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If there is no objection from the two men within 14 days, the panel will immediately start the enquiry. A very curious thing to say, what will happen if they do object? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadman Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 If there is no objection from the two men within 14 days, the panel will immediately start the enquiry. A very curious thing to say, what will happen if they do object? Had to laugh at that too...an invitation to start the stalling process, tie up the judicary, hope that time, memory and document loss occurs, to arrive in court eventaully in 10 years but then claim that the defendant is to old to serve time or has had that much time to suffer over the prolonged case that the case should be dismissed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatboy Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!" surely it must be a MISPRINT 15million bht.for 240 wall clocks =62,500bht.EACH not including batteries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!" surely it must be a MISPRINT 15million bht.for 240 wall clocks =62,500bht.EACH not including batteries. But it does cost a lot for someone to go to the nightmarket to buy them....especially when the Nightmarket is in paris and you have to send the whole family too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomross46 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!" surely it must be a MISPRINT 15million bht.for 240 wall clocks =62,500bht.EACH not including batteries. They are high quality digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanBBK Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 There is so little transparency. All these should have gone through a proper quotation process. Government spending needs to be an open book for every citizen to review. "Cannot disclose details of deal" comes to mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Must be some pretty nice digital clocks for that price, you can buy a luxury house with a privat pool for the same price. Edited August 28, 2014 by balo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 There is so little transparency. All these should have gone through a proper quotation process. Government spending needs to be an open book for every citizen to review. "Cannot disclose details of deal" comes to mind. We are just as bad in the west...there they just say incite Commercial Confidentiality if you ask how much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 What about the 1 million baht coffee tables,they bought. regards Worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nickymaster Posted August 28, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Ex-House speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont cleared Bt200 million personal debts between 2011-2013, his asset reports show. Edited August 28, 2014 by Nickymaster 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerry123 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!"surely it must be a MISPRINT 15million bht.for 240 wall clocks =62,500bht.EACH not including batteries.But it does cost a lot for someone to go to the nightmarket to buy them....especially when the Nightmarket is in paris and you have to send the whole family too.Iwould think that the family travel would have been a thai air perk therefore come under a seperate budget more funds for clock purchase ?? NOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 As you can tell by the wall clock...."It's time!!!!!!"surely it must be a MISPRINT 15million bht.for 240 wall clocks =62,500bht.EACH not including batteries. They are high quality digital. Wrong. At this price, we expect atomic clocks. And then the old Thai excuse - traffic was bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razer Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 OMG ... I read the headline and thought this was about USA politicians ... so the thinking goes for politicians everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recycled Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Must be some pretty nice digital clocks for that price, you can buy a luxury house with a privat pool for the same price. Yep, probably did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Loh Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Shouldn't the NACC be questioning the procurement manager rather then the house speakers? Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubl Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Shouldn't the NACC be questioning the procurement manager rather then the house speakers? Strange. Don't worry, if there is such a person (s)he'll be questioned as well. Maybe the NACC will even follow shirtless' suggestion of "just check suppliers there must be a connection ,or get a quote I am so sure that all is above board." Edited August 28, 2014 by rubl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 All the purchases will have been done through a middle man or Agent,that way the value of a clock or coffee table can be increased to whatever they want really,so a 5K clock becomes, 62K,they know everything they purchase can be checked out at manufacturers web sites to get the real cost,so they have to introduce the agent into the equasion. regards worgeordie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benmart Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Within 14 days will they still be in the country ?Hopefully, their travel documents have been seized. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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