PUBLISHED: 4:00 on October 21, 2023.
The anti-graft organization’s ask for a review of the case involving Prawit Wongsuwon, the former deputy prime minister, was rejected yesterday by the Supreme Administrative Court, which upheld that ruling.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission( NACC ), which had been asked to reveal the specifics of its investigation into the wristwatch controversy to political activist Veera Somkhwamkid, claimed there was no basis for the review requested by the court.
When Gen Prawit did not list 22 luxury watches and jewelry on his list of assets, the NACC ruled 5:3 in December 2018 that there was no evidence to support the claim that he had erroneously declared his money. They belonged to companions, according to Gen Prawit, and had since been given back.
When Gen Prawit was seen wearing a silver Richard Mille RM 029 valued at about 2.5 million ringgit and an engagement ring on December 4, 2017, at an event held at the Government House, the luxury watch investigation was launched.
Mr. Veera petitioned the Supreme Administrative Court for the publication of the information about the investigation after the NACC dismissed the event, and the request was immediately granted.
According to the court’s decision, the NACC was required to give Mr. Veera three sets of data.
Fact-finding information, the anti-graft officials in charge of the case’s opinions, and meeting reports from the NACC were all included in them.
However, the NACC merely provided Mr. Veera with two pieces of information and opted not to share the views of the anti-graft officials in charge.
The NACC secretary-general Niwatchai Kasemmongkol stated in an interview in August that the organization needed to maintain its integrity and that it was necessary to black out the witness names in the documents given to Mr. Veera in order to preserve the witnesses’ personality and dignity.