Election Commission rejects requests centered on former ministers ‘ businesses.
PUBLISHED: 28 Dec 2024 at 19: 48
In response to a lack of information that the Bhumjaithai Party received illegal gifts, the Election Commission rejected four requests for the breakdown of the organization.
No proof was found to support claims that Bhumjaithai, the second-largest gathering in the state alliance member, had purposefully accepted donations from illegal sources, according to the ballot body.
The requests were submitted by previous massage parlor tycoon-turned-politician Chuwit Kamolvisit as well as Phattarapong Supaksorn, Srisuwan Janya and Teerayut Suwankesorn.
The requests cited Section 92 of the law’s resolution and Area 72 of the healthy law’s prohibitive provisions for parties to receive money from illegal sources.
One of the complaints was that Bhumjaithai reportedly received donations from Burijaren Construction, a business that Saksayam Chidchob, a former minister of travel in the previous authorities, and former party secretary-general, was reportedly holding.
The Constitutional Court, which determined that Mr. Saksayam had a majority stake in Burijaren Construction, gave him the authority to run the business, removed him from office in January of this year. A government minister is prohibited by the law from having such a interest in a profitable enterprise.
Mr. Chuwit claimed that Mr. Saksayam was in charge of the department of transportation, and that some of the proceeds went to a group that has long been associated with his Buri Ram-based family.
The Election Commission stated in a statement that there is no evidence that Bhumjaithai received gifts with the knowledge that they were improper or suspected to be from improper options.
” If new evidence emerges in the future of the donors breaking the law on bid submissions to state agencies, the registrar of parties]the EC’s secretary-general ] will take up the case for consideration again”.
Other sources of illegal donations to Bhumjaithai, according to the petitioners, were Silachai Buriram ( 1991 ) Co, and a man identified as Supachai Kasemsutthi. The pollster also cited a lack of supporting information for those claims.
Sawang Boonmee, the agency’s secretary-general, recently said the claims made against Mr Saksayam did not give grounds for party defection.