Local officials suspended for allegedly fixing entrance exams
As many as 32 top executives of local administrative organisations in Maha Sarakham province have been suspended from duty for their alleged role in questionable recruitment practices.
The executives accounted for more than half of 59 officials under investigation who were suspended by Prime Minister General Prayut Chanocha's order on Tuesday. The order, authorised under Article 44 of the interim constitution, took immediate effect.
"During their suspension, they won't get paid," Maha Sarakham Governor Chockchai Dejamornthan said Wednesday.
He said the officials in his province were suspended in connection with a recruitment process that had been mired in irregularities and alleged corruption.
"The list of candidates passing recruitment exams as announced by local administrative organisations, for example, does not match the list prepared by the Kalasin Rajabhat University," Chockchai said.