THAI PBS
Commissioner Vicha Mahakhun in his capacity as chief of the investigating team said Friday that the team had received vital information about the alleged irregularities in the scheme, especially documents about rice delivery, from Thailand Development Research Institute honorary academic Nipon Puapongkorn.
He said further that several people involved in the rice trade, including those who bought rice from nominees, had volunteered information for the probe team.
Once the investigation is wrapped up possibly in the middle of next January, Mr Vicha said that the NACC would be able to determine whether corruption charges would be lodged against former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and other government officials who were involved in the scandal regarding the bogus government-to-government rice deals with China.
Another probe team is investigating an information from the ombudsman Sriracha Charoenpanich regarding a suspicious rice deal with Indonesia in which Siam Indiga company was involved.
Vicha further said that the commission was to investigate another scandal exposed by former Democrat MP Warong Dejkitvikrom that a relative of caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was involved in the packed rice scandal.
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