PUBLISHED: 21 Sep 2024 at 04: 00
The National Anti-Corruption Commission ( NACC ) is bringing charges against three state officials for offenses like paying for fuel for private travel and using public transportation.
Pokpong Umyoo, former chairman of the Rayong Coastal Aquaculture Research and Development Centre, Kitchai Kulsamrit, a former Uthai Thani municipal regional administration officer, and Chakrawut Yangsantia, aka Chaiyan Petaipaiwan, continuous director for Na Kham Tambon Administrative Organisation, are the three being indicted, the NACC said yesterday.
Mr. Pokpong was discovered to have moved items to the site of his underconstruction residence during business hours for five or six months in 2019 using the center’s vehicle and pickup truck.
He was also found to have assigned 11 of the facility’s staff to help travel two trees worth around 4, 000 ringgit from the heart to his home and also to help with vegetation, gardening, and electronic work. The Department of Fisheries is in charge of the center and has been given the task of recovering the damage.
The NACC discovered that Mr. Kitchai had parked a state-owned vehicles on his home between December 2018 and May 2019 and had used it as his personal vehicle in the case against him. Additionally, Mr. Kitchai was accused of filling up his family vehicle with a state gas card.
In Mr Chakrawut’s event, the accused was found to have used 26 energy insurance coupons– each fair 500 baht, amounting to 13, 000 baht in total– which the Na Kham Administrative Organisation had as a credit agreement with Boriboon Borikarn petrol station, for his personal vehicle.
Under the Organic Act on Prevention and Suppression of Corruption and Sections 172 and 91 of the Criminal Code, the NACC found the three officers guilty of serious administrative and judicial offenses. They will send their circumstances to the solicitor standard for legal advice.