By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION commissioners were today (July 22) encouraged to give up performing in double standard fashion whilst handling the senatorial rigging conspiracy allegedly involving Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and several Bhumjaithai members of cabinet, among others, or else they themselves could probably risk being put behind bars, according to chief
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PM, Bhumjaithai ministers accused of involvement in alleged senatorial rigging conspiracy
‘ By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul and several other members of his cabinet were yesterday (July 21) publicly accused of clandestine, unlawful involvement in the alleged rigging of 2024’s senatorial election now that the Election Commission has been repeatedly taken to task for dragging their feet on the notorious issue. Yingcheep Atchanont,
Read moreOnly 8 among 229 senatorial rigging suspects might be charged: Justice Minister
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ONLY EIGHT persons might probably be charged for involvement in a criminal conspiracy and money-laundering activity behind 2024’s senatorial election allegedly riddled with vote-buying, rigging shenanigans, according to Justice Minister Rutthapol Naowarat. Out of a total of 229 persons initially suspected of having been more or less involved in the
Read moreJustice Minister reproached for avoiding House inquiry into senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE Minister Rutthapol Naowarat was today (July 2) lambasted for unjustifiably circumventing the People’s-led, sustained probe into 2024’s senatorial vote-buying, electoral rigging scandals allegedly involving Bhumjaithai leader/Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and de facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob’s son/party secretary-general Chaichanok Chidchob, according to an opposition MP. Rutthapol was reportedly quoted
Read moreBig names in Bhumjaithai suspected of involvement in money-laundering scam
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CERTAIN, HIGH-PROFILED figures among the Bhumjaithai rank and file have been suspected of involvement in money-laundering activities pertaining to alleged irregularities over last year’s senatorial elections, Department of Special Investigation Director-General Yutthana Praedam said today (July 18). Given an in-depth investigation by the DSI into the scandalous, electoral fraud featuring
Read moreSenatorial vote-rigging cases against 229 suspects forwarded
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE of the Election Commission today (July 17) put forward historic cases of vote-buying, bloc-voting allegations over last year’s senatorial elections involving as many as 229 law-breaking suspects and the Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob as a whole. The ad hoc committee has concluded its
Read moreConstitutional Court urged to hold polling agency guilty, annul senatorial races
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT was today (March 12) pleaded to hold the Election Commission guilty of failure to hold last year’s senatorial elections in fair and clean fashion and to declare the notorious races to parliament null and void, albeit in retroactive fashion. Nataporn Toprayoon, a former adviser to the Office
Read moreElection Commission being pressed to suspend secretary-general
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION is being pressed to suspend its secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from officially performing, pending probe into last year’s senatorial rigging scandals about which he has reportedly done nothing as yet. A group of reserve senators plans to call on the Election Commission at the headquarters tomorrow (March 12)
Read moreMany former senatorial contestants tipped to confess to vote-buying plots
By Thai Newsroom Reporters HUNDREDS OF FORMER SENATORIAL contestants may become witnesses to electoral rigging scandals over last year’s nationwide races with their anticipated confession of playing their part in such bloc-voting, vote-buying and money-laundering shenanigans, according to government officials. Out of some 1,200 former senatorial contenders and others whom the Department of Special
Read moreMonthly pay for senators’ ‘advisers’ funneled to political party
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT was seen as an alleged pilferage of the taxpayer’s money, some 10 million baht in monthly pay for persons formally hired as “advisers” to senators has been allegedly siphoned off monthly via “mule accounts” to a certain political party. An army of 138 senators, currently suspected to have
Read moreSenatorial rigging scandals now special case for DSI
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LAST YEAR’S senatorial rigging allegations were today (March 6) collectively handled as a special case for the Department of Special Investigation to find and bring to justice any guilty perpetrators. The Special Lawsuit Committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and consisting of 22 high-ranking government officials, today
Read more1,200 people to be questioned as witnesses to senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AS MANY AS 1,200 people including defeated senatorial candidates will likely be questioned by the Department of Special Investigation as personal witnesses to alleged senatorial rigging, bloc-voting shenanigans. The estimated 1,200 witnesses will likely be individually summoned for interrogation by the DSI pertaining to allegations that as many as 138
Read moreDSI panel’s decision on senatorial rigging scandals put off till March 6
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL Lawsuits under the Department of Special Investigation today (Feb.25) postponed the making of a decision as to whether the agency may address scandals surrounding last year’s senatorial elections as a special lawsuit until early next month. The DSI committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham
Read moreDSI likely to handle senatorial rigging scandals as special lawsuit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION will likely address scandals surrounding last year’s senatorial elections as a special lawsuit allegedly involving unlawful conspiracy and money-laundering plots, according to partisan sources. The Committee on Special Lawsuits of the DSI, a government agency under direct control of Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong, is scheduled
Read moreElection commissioners warned they face jail over senatorial election rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL ELECTION commissioners might probably be found guilty of duty negligence charges and sentenced to prison over alleged rigging, bloc-voting plots in last year’s senatorial elections, according to a former senator. Mr. Seri Suwanpanon posted on his Facebook page today (Feb.22) to caution all the seven commissioners of the polling
Read moreDSI likely to probe scandals over senatorial race riggings
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION will likely launch investigation into allegations that last year’s senatorial elections were blatantly riddled with vote-buying, rigging shenanigans, a partisan source said over the weekend. DSI Director-General Yutthana Praedam who himself has recently received a refreshed petition from a defeated senatorial contestant at the agency’s
Read moreAll election commissioners may be booted out for alleged senatorial election fiasco
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL ELECTION COMMISSIONERS might possibly be deposed by court for alleged failure to hold a clear-cut and clean election for senators a few months earlier. The seven election commissioners could possibly not only be immediately ousted by the Constitutional Court but subsequently face criminal indictments for the alleged failure to
Read moreMove Forward urges people to judge whether senate ‘necessary’ any longer
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE MOVE FORWARD has repeatedly called on the people to consider and judge whether it may be “necessary” for Thailand to have the Senate any longer. Move Forward spokesperson/MP Parit Wacharasindhu today (July 9) suggested the people nationwide to decide for themselves whether it may be ultimately necessary for the
Read moreAdministrative Court asked to delay ratification of all 200 senators-designate
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT was today (July 8) petitioned to indefinitely delay an official ratification of all 200 senators-designate, pending a sought-after probe by the Election Commission into alleged bloc-vote riggings and electoral irregularities. Defeated senatorial contestant Chakrapong Khongpanya today submitted the complaint to the Administrative Court in pursuit of an
Read moreWoman contested senatorial race in Buriram without signing her name: Nipit
By Thai Newsroom Reporters IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a sheer electoral irregularity, a woman farmer had been allegedly hired by a politically-associated wheeler-dealer to contest the senatorial election without signing her name on the application form and been elected at the district and provincial stages in Buriram. Former Democrat MP Nipit Intharasombat today
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