By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A SUBPOENA has been issued for Deputy Commerce Minister Napinthorn Srisanpang for questioning by the authorities due to his being initially charged with involvement in unprecedented vote-rigging, bloc-voting, money-laundering conspiracies over last year’s senatorial elections.
The Election Commission has issued the subpoena for Napinthorn, the cabinet member attached to the Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob, to be interrogated by an ad hoc committee of the polling agency in relation to the electoral irregularities and money-laundering conspiracies over the senatorial races allegedly orchestrated by a number of persons either openly or covertly associated with the Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner.
In addition, former deputy House speaker Supachai Bhosu is among 100-plus persons mostly being former MPs, provincial and local politicians associated with the Bhumjaithai for whom the subpoena has been issued by the polling agency for interrogation pertaining to the alleged electoral fraud in last year’s complicated, triple-tiered, senatorial elections.
A political activist, namely Nataporn Toprayoon, has already filed a lawsuit in pursuit of a dissolution of Newin’s camp for alleged involvement in pre-planned plots to undermine democratic rule with the monarchy as head of state by deliberately defrauding the irregularities-riddled, money-laundering races to parliament.
The dissolution of the Move Forward, now turned into the People’s, by the Constitutional Court has apparently set a legal precedent for the Bhumjaithai case in regard to similar charges of undermining democratic rule with the monarchy as head of state.
As many as 140 out of a total 200 senators, mostly stalwart of and influenced by Newin’s camp, have been suspected and subpoenaed in relation to the electoral fraud charges following an in-depth investigation jointly conducted by the Department of Special Investigation, Anti-Money-Laundering Office and Election Commission.
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Top and Front Page: Deputy Commerce Minister Napinthorn Srisanpang. Photos: Naewna
Insert: Supachai Bhosu. Photo: Thai Rath
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