Ms Samuel's raised her concern at the onset that the Prime
Minister's order to abolish the rewards system in fact contains a
savings (grandfather) clause that would permit further payments for
asset seizure that took place prior to the order's effective date.
Yuthabool acknowledged that while the abolishment order
theoretically allowed payments for cases that were finalized and
approved for payment prior to October 2007, in fact only 'one or
two' legacy cases now exist that could meet the criteria for
payment, and that in any event no funds had or would be appropriated
by the Parliament to AMLO in order to make such payments. Yuthabool
also explained that in additional to the Prime Minister's
abolishment of the controversial rewards system, the Cabinet was
working to restructure AMLO itself in order to add emphasis to its
Financial Institution Unit (FIU) monitoring role as well as to
upgrade AMLO's Asset Management Division to bureau status.