Agency agrees to set up new team after slow progress on Klongchan fraud case
VICTIMS OF the Klongchan Credit Union embezzlement case submitted a plea to the Department of Special Investigation yesterday asking that a new set of investigators replace the incumbent team because of its slow progress and alleged inefficiency.
A deputy director-general, Phaisit Wongmuang, said the DSI would look at whether to comply with the petition, submitted on behalf of around 100 victims, but senior DSI official Somboon Sarasith said new investigators would take over using information retrieved by the current team, which would be 'deactivated'.
A deputy permanent secretary at the Finance Ministry, Dussadee Arayawuth, said the new group of DSI agents would call its first meeting on February 2, and would look closely at people who received money withdrawn via 800 cheques signed by credit union executives. This was a key information that incumbent investigators had failed to do, after a two-year probe into the scandal, which resulted in a loss of Bt16 billion from Credit Union assets, which are mainly members' savings.
In a statement, activist Atchariya Ruengrattanaphong said the very slow progress, compared to quick progress achieved by the Crime Suppression Division in its probe into the theft of Bt1.5 billion from accounts of the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang, had prompted this group of victims to lodge the complaint.
He said certain victims were expected to receive some of the money in the next three months as a result of the petition after senior DSI officials promised to replace incumbent investigators with new ones. He said the DSI had agreed to report its progress to them every seven days.
Atchariya called on Thawatchai Thaikheo, another deputy permanent secretary, to resign for his guarantee, as a senior government official, to a request by former Credit Union chairman Suphachai Sri-aksorn, for temporary release on bail. Suphachai has been charged with embezzlement by the DSI.
Dussadee said Atchariya's demand for Thawatchai to resign was not discussed in yesterday's meeting of DSI executives, as the issue was deemed a personal matter for Thawatchai, who he said had already submitted an explanation for his guarantee to the Justice minister and the permanent secretary.
The group later rallied outside the DSI compound in the Government Complex off Chaeng Wattana Road north of Bangkok, and blew whistles while shouting slogans calling for Thawatchai to resign
Instagram posted a tweet on Twitter acknowledging the problem.
"We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience," tweeted the photo-sharing service at 2.51pm.
By 3.10pm, Facebook was back online while Instagram was accessible at 3.20pm.
On Monday, MAS' website was compromised by a group calling themselves the Official Cyber Caliphate.
The "hackers" later identified themselves as Lizard Squad, the group allegedly behind the hacking of Microsoft's Xbox Live and the Sony’s PlayStation Network last year.
Agency agrees to set up new team after slow progress on Klongchan fraud case
VICTIMS OF the Klongchan Credit Union embezzlement case submitted a plea to the Department of Special Investigation yesterday asking that a new set of investigators replace the incumbent team because of its slow progress and alleged inefficiency.
A deputy director-general, Phaisit Wongmuang, said the DSI would look at whether to comply with the petition, submitted on behalf of around 100 victims, but senior DSI official Somboon Sarasith said new investigators would take over using information retrieved by the current team, which would be 'deactivated'.
A deputy permanent secretary at the Finance Ministry, Dussadee Arayawuth, said the new group of DSI agents would call its first meeting on February 2, and would look closely at people who received money withdrawn via 800 cheques signed by credit union executives. This was a key information that incumbent investigators had failed to do, after a two-year probe into the scandal, which resulted in a loss of Bt16 billion from Credit Union assets, which are mainly members' savings.
In a statement, activist Atchariya Ruengrattanaphong said the very slow progress, compared to quick progress achieved by the Crime Suppression Division in its probe into the theft of Bt1.5 billion from accounts of the King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang, had prompted this group of victims to lodge the complaint.
He said certain victims were expected to receive some of the money in the next three months as a result of the petition after senior DSI officials promised to replace incumbent investigators with new ones. He said the DSI had agreed to report its progress to them every seven days.
Atchariya called on Thawatchai Thaikheo, another deputy permanent secretary, to resign for his guarantee, as a senior government official, to a request by former Credit Union chairman Suphachai Sri-aksorn, for temporary release on bail. Suphachai has been charged with embezzlement by the DSI.
Dussadee said Atchariya's demand for Thawatchai to resign was not discussed in yesterday's meeting of DSI executives, as the issue was deemed a personal matter for Thawatchai, who he said had already submitted an explanation for his guarantee to the Justice minister and the permanent secretary.
The group later rallied outside the DSI compound in the Government Complex off Chaeng Wattana Road north of Bangkok, and blew whistles while shouting slogans calling for Thawatchai to resign
Instagram posted a tweet on Twitter acknowledging the problem.
"We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience," tweeted the photo-sharing service at 2.51pm.
By 3.10pm, Facebook was back online while Instagram was accessible at 3.20pm.
On Monday, MAS' website was compromised by a group calling themselves the Official Cyber Caliphate.
The "hackers" later identified themselves as Lizard Squad, the group allegedly behind the hacking of Microsoft's Xbox Live and the Sony’s PlayStation Network last year.
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