Commission seeks new evidence in red-shirt petition

By The Nation

 

BANGKOK: -- The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is considering a petition filed by a red-shirt leader against former prime minister Abhisit Vejajiva and his deputy Suthep Thausuban in a case concerning the violent crackdown on red shirts in 2010.

The agency could re-investigate the case against the former prime minister and his deputy if any new evidence was presented, said its president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit on Friday.

 

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed criminal charges against the two on the basis of a legal technicality. The court said the NACC and not the Department of Special Investigation should have brought the case to the court for political office holders.

 

The two had been accused of murder in the 2010 deadly crackdown on red-shirt protesters in which more than 90 people were killed.

 

Watcharapol said the NACC officials had been ordered to examine evidence submitted by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). They will compare it with evidence seen in 2015, when the NACC decided to drop a malfeasance indictment against Abhisit and Suthep.

 

NACC members will evaluate whether there is new or different evidence than that raised in the past and then meet to rule on whether they should reconsider the case, Watcharapol said.

 

He cannot predict how long the process would take or whether or not it would be taken as an urgent case, Watcharapol said. That would depend on the evidence presented by the UDD.

 

The NACC would be fair and consider the presented evidence carefully, Watcharapol said.

 

In response to the UDD’s threat to gather a million people to sign a petition calling for the dismissal of the NACC commissioners if they did not revive the case, the NACC president said the agency did not feel pressured and would continue doing its job as prescribed by law.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30325503

 

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1 minute ago, webfact said:

The NACC would be fair and consider the presented evidence carefully, Watcharapol said.

 

What is wrong with these redshirt morons ? They start the trouble and then try and sue someone who tries to sort it out !

5 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

What is wrong with these redshirt morons ? They start the trouble and then try and sue someone who tries to sort it out !

Phantom still fiddling while Thailand still burns?

 

There is a difference between suing somebody and requesting their arrest on criminal charges.

 

Edited September 2, 20178 yr by hugh2121

5 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

What is wrong with these redshirt morons ? They start the trouble and then try and sue someone who tries to sort it out !

Mmmm , morons you say !

Perhaps if Yingluck hadn't cut  (IIRC halved ?)  the NACC's funding, they might have got round to this sooner, but her government preferred to rely on the DSI instead, in their pursuit of Abhisit & Suthep.

 

Not that this was in-any-way political of course, perish the thought !

They want their day in court and they are going through proper legal channels.  Seems all rather civilized.