By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra might probably freshly face wealth concealment allegations involving her spouse’s failure to officially, completely report all his assets.
The prime minister, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, had evidently failed to report 1.6 million baht in cash profit from the sale of corporate shares previously owned by her spouse, Pitaka Suksawat, to the National Anti-Corruption Commission alongside other assets which both have possessed prior to her being named head of government last August.
When asked by reporters to comment on the latest wealth concealment scandal surrounding her spouse, the prime minister bluntly responded by saying “that is sensitive.”
A formal petition could probably be filed to the Constitutional Court sooner or later in pursuit of eventual impeachment of Paetongtarn for alleged failure to completely report all assets and liabilities such as cash and property possessed by her spouse and herself, thus triggering questions of evident honesty and ethical norms which the woman prime minister may have been lacking.
If finally found guilty as charged in court, Paetongtarn could possibly be deposed of elected premiership – a repetition of the impeachment of her predecessor Srettha Thavisin who had been ousted by court due to his determined lack of evident honesty after he had named an ex-convict a member of his cabinet last year.
Paetongtarn, reported by the anti-graft agency to possess some 13 billion baht in assets, had been grilled during a recent censure debate in the House of Representatives for alleged legal cover-ups over some 218 million baht in evaded tax which would otherwise have been collected by the Revenue Department in relation to some 4.4 billion baht in profit from transferred corporate shares for which the woman prime minister had issued promissory notes to her close family members without specified repayment terms or interest rates.
People’s MP Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn has formally petitioned Revenue Department Director-General Pinsai Suraswadi to investigate and determine whether the prime minister may have deliberately covered up such financial transactions to evade tax payment as accused at parliament.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her husband Pitaka Suksawat. Top photo: Thai Rath, Front Page photo: Sanook.com
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