However, the son of ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has not yet fixed a time to see the DSI. Mr Panthongtae's lawyer petitioned the DSI asking it not to press money laundering charges against his client. Meanwhile, the DSI's special case committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam agreed to take up four special cases. The firm stands accused of laundering money through an alleged bogus sale of rice to China in a government-to-government agreement from 2011 to 2012. Another case the DSI is treating as a special case concerns the distribution of defective Alpha 6 narcotics detectors to the Directorate of Operations under the Royal Thai Armed Forces.

Source: Bangkok Post November 08, 2017 21:56 UTC