The OAG, as the plaintiff in the case, said it has no intention of filing an appeal. Since neither side filed an appeal, said the source, the case has been closed. This explains why he had not filed an appeal nor sought to extend the appeal period. Surasak Treerattrakul, deputy chief of the panel of prosecutors handling the rice-pledging and the fake government-to-government rice sales cases, said the rice-pledging case is now over because no appeals had been filed by the deadline. Mr Kittinan said his panel had obtained copies of the appeals of the two defendants for study and is preparing to counter the defence.

Source: Bangkok Post October 29, 2017 04:07 UTC