A draft organic law that stipulates more personal information protection for people being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) could be an obstacle to tackling graft, a seminar was told on Wednesday. "This proposal is literally cutting the arms and legs off independent and public investigation. It is contradictory to suggest that limiting NACC disclosure of information coupled with these criteria promotes transparency and public scrutiny," he said. Mr Sanoh referred to several graft investigations against politicians that succeeded because of the transparency of information which the NACC gathered and disclosed. "This gives more weight to the protection of suspects than the public interest," he added.

Source: Bangkok Post November 30, 2017 00:11 UTC