The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Deputy Education and learning Minister Kanokwan Vilawan to stop working soon after accepting for deliberation a case filed against her by graft busters.
The court mentioned in a statement this had accepted the situation brought by the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) accusing the Bhumjaithai Party politician of committing a serious ethical violation in a case of land encroachment within Khao Yai National Recreation area.
The court also ordered Ms Kanokwan hanging from office with immediate effect and tentatively banned the girl from politics to get 10 years, or till the court delivers judgement.
A party-list MP pertaining to Prachin Buri, Microsoft Kanokwan and eight other people including her father Soonthorn Vilawan were indicted by open public prosecutors for the illegal job of about 150 rai inside the national recreation area in her home province in June.
The NACC later delivered a criminal case against her in the Supreme Court.
The particular corruption agency stated in the complaint that Ms Kanokwan experienced committd a serious breach of ethics by colluding with property oficials in applying for title deed over thirty rai supposedly owned by Thiew Malisorn on Feb fourteen, 1990. It turned out that Thiew Malisorn failed to exist and the title was made up in order to the way for her to illegally own the property inside the national recreation area. She and her father were released title deeds.
The court set Oct 5 for the first listening to of the NACC case.
Microsoft Kanokwan’s father may be the president of the Prachin Buri Provincial Administrative Organisation.
Ms Kanokwan offers kept low-profile at the office since she as well as other accused were indicted by prosecutors in June.
She is the second cabinet minister to be hanging from duty within two days. The Constitutional Court suspended Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha from the prime ministership until it gives the ruling on his eight-year term in workplace.