Khunying Jaruwan formally charged with malfeasance

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Khunying Jaruwan formally charged with malfeasance



BANGKOK: -- Former auditor-general KhunyingJaruwanMainthaka was today indicted before the Criminal Court with the charge of malfeasance in office by the public prosecution.

Two other officials of the National Audit Office were also indicated with the same charge in connection with a trip back in 2003 to Nan province for a seminar which did not take place but officials taking part in the trip were allowed to claim travelling and accommodation fees.

The National Ant-Corruption Commission investigated the case found there was ground to charge the khunying and two accomplices with malfeasance in office.

After the formal indictment, KhunyingJaruwan and two others were released on bail.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/khunying-jaruwan-formally-charged-malfeasance/


-- Thai PBS 2014-10-31

[ATF]

Inactive Post anyone?

[terryp]

so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

[RustBucket]

How come the charge was 'malfeasance'?

This is nothing other than basic fraud..... Nothing at all to do with malfeasance which is failure to carry out your duty in a way that affects the function of your position.

Do these people have any brains at all?

[MJP]

A post deemed a bit risky considering the present political situation has been removed along with a reply.

[Somtamnication]

She was a tough prosecutor and spent a long time off the job due to her powers. 11 years ago? This is payback, not justice.

[ezzra]

Inactive Post anyone?

It seems that for the first time all those coveted inactive posts are all full right now... so she had to be

indicted... bad luck..

[Commerce]

How come the charge was 'malfeasance'?

This is nothing other than basic fraud..... Nothing at all to do with malfeasance which is failure to carry out your duty in a way that affects the function of your position.

Do these people have any brains at all?

Do you really need the last question to be answered?

At least we see Karma on this one.

[Zpete]

so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

What about the hundreds of others in the public service?

Get them too.

[bangkokfrog]

so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

How about innocent until proven guilty? I don't know the background to this but if there was a seminar scheduled which was cancelled at the last minute and she traveled there in good faith, then surely at least some of her costs should be claimable. After 11 years and with everything else that goes on here? This does seem more like political payback than the NAC doing a sterling job.

[ChesterB]

How can she be indicted?

The red shirt rabble here are always complaining that only their politicians are indicted and that anti-Thaksin elites like her are never charged.

Oh.

I guess they are wrong about that, too.

.

[cloudhopper]

Fast work by the NACC. They should have things cleaned up around here in no time.

[Briggsy]

so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

You obviously have no knowledge of this civil servant or this case. She has repeatedly exposed corruption involving billions of baht.

This charge is 100% political as her enemies have now got the green light to attack her.

If you know jack, you are best to not open your mouth and reveal it.

[rickirs]

After 11 years for an indictment (not a judgement!) of malfeasance is the best case that NACC has to spend its resources developing? NACC probably spent more on its invesytigation than the amounts reimbursed to the officials. And why malfeasance and not theft? I suspect because "theft" would be a criminal charge wherein the police would conduct the investigation whereas "malfeasance by a public official" puts the investigation in NACC's authority. It's all about recognition and insider politics.

It would be interesting to know the details of the incident. If the officials in good faith pre-paid airfare and nonrefundable hotel reservations (ie., to save costs by getting lower rates than if paid when checking in) with the expectation of attending the meeting, they should receive reimbursement for such costs when the meeting is subsequently cancelled. If they still travelled to the meeting site knowing the meeting was cancelled to essentially take a paid vacation at government expense, I could see that as malfeasance. If they made false expense reports, ie., never paid for such travel expenses, then that would be a case of theft. Unfortunately, public transparency does not seem to be one of NACC's strengths.

[Commerce]

Fast work by the NACC. They should have things cleaned up around here in no time.

If she's smart, her purse will be out today, and it will all be blamed on a few Burmese.

[Prbkk]

...it could be said that this represents only one part of a pattern of behaviour. There are other allegations about abuse/nepotism not covered in this article/indictment.

[Gunna]

After 11 years for an indictment (not a judgement!) of malfeasance is the best case that NACC has to spend its resources developing? NACC probably spent more on its invesytigation than the amounts reimbursed to the officials. And why malfeasance and not theft? I suspect because "theft" would be a criminal charge wherein the police would conduct the investigation whereas "malfeasance by a public official" puts the investigation in NACC's authority. It's all about recognition and insider politics.

It would be interesting to know the details of the incident. If the officials in good faith pre-paid airfare and nonrefundable hotel reservations (ie., to save costs by getting lower rates than if paid when checking in) with the expectation of attending the meeting, they should receive reimbursement for such costs when the meeting is subsequently cancelled. If they still travelled to the meeting site knowing the meeting was cancelled to essentially take a paid vacation at government expense, I could see that as malfeasance. If they made false expense reports, ie., never paid for such travel expenses, then that would be a case of theft. Unfortunately, public transparency does not seem to be one of NACC's strengths.

Usually travel and accommodation for official events for Government Officials is booked and and paid for by the Government Travel Agency, not by the individuals themselves. The allowance for travel and food ie stuff paid for locally eg taxis, meals etc would be in cash and they kept it even though they didn't attend the seminar. Government Travel Agencies often book full fare tickets and hotels as refundable as they know they may need to change dates or times.

[rickirs]

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so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

What about the hundreds of others in the public service?

Get them too.

I suspect that with regard to the NACC being involved, their authority only relates to public OFFICIALS and not civil servants. Investigation of the latter would fall to DSI and/or the police to investigate should a complaint be filed.

[Robby nz]

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so basically she is a thief, or in a polite way parasite of the thai tax payers

What about the hundreds of others in the public service?

Get them too.

I suspect that with regard to the NACC being involved, their authority only relates to public OFFICIALS and not civil servants. Investigation of the latter would fall to DSI and/or the police to investigate should a complaint be filed.

There is another organization that is supposed to be there to handle corruption in the public service the Public Service Anti Corruption Commission PSACC, however in 2012 they were deemed to be the most corrupt government entity.

They are now under new management and hopefully will be doing their job correctly without the previous corruption.

While we are on PS corruption, in the near future there may need to be a dedicated prison built to handle all the corruption cases, I suggest they get this gent to build and run it in the most out of the way place possible.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/10-worst-prisons-america-joe-arpaio-tent-city

[borisloosebrain]

One if the few straight shooters who consistently stood her ground against corrupt officials. She's ruffled a few feathers in her time. This is payback.

[Sydebolle]

I - for one - truly trust the local legal enforcement and am absolutely sure that the days of "honest mistakes" are gone - eventually.

[ratcatcher]

One if the few straight shooters who consistently stood her ground against corrupt officials. She's ruffled a few feathers in her time. This is payback.

Could this have something to do with a case due to be in the public eye in a few weeks, when the person in question, recently returned from China, is in the limelight. We got Jaruvan, now we get Y......... ?

[Acharn]

How come the charge was 'malfeasance'?

This is nothing other than basic fraud..... Nothing at all to do with malfeasance which is failure to carry out your duty in a way that affects the function of your position.

Do these people have any brains at all?

dictionary.com defines "malfeasance" as: the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). I believe you may be thinking of "misfeasance."

This is something different from "basic fraud." It includes official misconduct. I agree it seems like a very small infraction and I'll bet she's guilty of a lot worse, but she's a Khunying, after all, and we mustn't disgrace the title.

Incidentally, I haven't looked up the story in a Thai newspaper so I don't know what the Thai word is that they used in the official charge. Are you a qualified Thai-English interpreter?

[Phatcharanan]

Fast work by the NACC. They should have things cleaned up around here in no time.

If she's smart, her purse will be out today, and it will all be blamed on a few Burmese.

Boring.

[Chang_paarp]

This came up about 18 months ago during the Yinluck administration. The allegation went along this line (memory can be rusty over this time), they discovered that there was a seminar put on the books and her whole department (at the relevant level) was booked onto it. They all claimed travel allowance for attending the seminar and the Kunying authorised the payment for all the underlings. The seminar apparently did not happen, but the travel allowance was paid. The original article did not say if the Kunying actually made anything from this deal.

My reading at the time was that it was one way to give the underlings a bonus, I could be very wrong, but the whole thing stank of political payback then and the stench has not changed that much in the interim.

[bangrak]

How come the charge was 'malfeasance'?

This is nothing other than basic fraud..... Nothing at all to do with malfeasance which is failure to carry out your duty in a way that affects the function of your position.

Do these people have any brains at all?

Do you really need the last question to be answered?

At least we see Karma on this one.

Nope, Kharma still has to strike the rotten apples she was after all that time, but it's as if Kharma can't reach sandy overseas territories, and that's a real shame!

[Cuchulainn]

Yeah, a "Khunying" really needs the money. Jail her!!!

[Dap]

I always thought of Khunying Jaruwan as one of the "good guys", Sigh

[Robespiere]

One if the few straight shooters who consistently stood her ground against corrupt officials. She's ruffled a few feathers in her time. This is payback.

Not sure straight shooter is the right term.

Her wikipedia page makes for an interesting read.