Nacc not hopeful of resolution with prosecutor in yingluck case/the Sunday Nation December 14,2014 1:00 am
Sansern rules out conducting more probe in rice-pleding case against ex-PM
Nation Anti-Corruption Commission secretary-general Sansern Poljieak has said the Office of the Attorney-General and the anti-graft agency are unlikely to jointly resolve the case involving the rice-pledging scheme against ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra
Sensern yesterday insisted the NACC would not investigate more people in the case after he said the Office asked it to spend more time probing alleged government-to-government rice sales
He was responding to a reaction form the Office's litigation department director-general Surasak Trirattrakul, calling on the NACC to plug the holes in the case by interviewing more withnesses
Surasak said the Office wanted to see more evidence because the NACC report showed discrepancices in witness testimonies, Which made it unclear to whether the government-to-government rice sales took place.
Sansern said thst would not happen because that investigation element was not related to the charge the NACC had filed against Yingluck
He said the NACC report did not include this issue in the Yongluck case but included it in another graft case, againt former Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and famer Deputy Commerce Minister Poom Sarap over the scapped rice-pledging scheme.
In Octorbet, the finance Ministry reported that the estimate loses in the scheme were between Bt600-700 billion
Senern said the NACC would meet tomorrow to decide its next move.
He said it was not clear if the Office would indict Yingluck as recommended by the NACC but there was a high probability that both agencies would be unable to resolve the case together.
Whether she would be indicted or not would be announced when the agencies hold their last joint meeting, which was yet to be scheduled.