By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A REFRESHED PETITION in pursuit of an ouster of the newly-named National Anti-Corruption Commission Chair Suchart Trakulkasemsuk has been planned by former deputy police chief Surachate Hakparn to be filed shortly at parliament.
Surachate, who was dismissed last year as deputy police chief over kickback scandals, has planned to submit the renewed petition against Suchart shortly on grounds of allegedly perpetrating an ethical breach prior to his having been named and endorsed by royal approval on Tuesday as the new NACC chief.
Last month’s event in which Suchart held a personal consultation pertaining to his official businesses with House Speaker Wan Muhammad Noor Matha at the latter’s house was evidently tantamount to a violation of the code of ethics and conduct to which senior bureaucratic officials would be otherwise obliged, according to the petitioner.
In addition, the former deputy police chief took the House speaker, generally viewed as chief of the legislative branch, to task for also breaching the code of ethics by allegedly failing to remain impartial toward the former’s coveted rise to chairmanship of the anti-graft agency and by waiving a mass petition earlier lodged by Surachate with some 22,000 people undersigning it against Suchart.
Surachate made his comments after a hidden video clip has gone viral online featuring Noor Matha and Suchart holding a private talk at the former’s house about the latter’s businesses.
However, Surachate told reporters that he was not literally present in the scene as accused by Noor Matha. Besides, the former deputy police chief said he did by no means make the video clip himself as accused by the House speaker. Surachate was not seen in the clip which only features the seated Noor Matha and Suchart.
But Noor Matha told reporters that Surachate was seated in the room where the House speaker and the NACC chief were holding their private talk and accused the former deputy police chief of becoming a senior person without etiquette as he had allegedly managed to covertly make the now-circulated clip.
Last year, Surachate had lodged a petition with intent to have Suchart deposed as one of the seven commissioners of the anti-graft agency but Noor Matha had decided against forwarding it to the Supreme Court purportedly due to lack of evidence.
In 2020, the former deputy police chief was known to have brought Suchart to personally meet with former deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan in a successful effort to be named a commissioner of the anti-graft agency.
CAPTION:
Former deputy police chief Surachate Hakparn, left, House Speaker Wan Muhammad Noor Matha, right, and newly-named National Anti-Corruption Commission Chair Suchart Trakulkasemsuk, centre. Photo: Amarin TV
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