PUBLISHED: 23 Apr 2024 at 16 :19
The most recent petition asking the National Anti-Corruption Commission ( NACC ) to formally investigate the ministry’s alleged misconduct in handling Thaksin Shinawatra’s hospitalization and early release from prison on Tuesday left Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong unfazed.
The government had rigorously adhered to the laws that allowed a prisoner to get treatment outside of jail and obtain parole, according to Pol Col Tawee. Nevertheless, people had the right to appeal the NACC to evaluate what they believed to be wrongdoing in Thaksin’s situation, he said.
He was responding to members of two groups, including Thai Pakdee Party leader Warong Dechgitvigrom ,’s most recent petition that was submitted to the NACC on Monday.
A report that Dr. Warong claimed was a private email he had received from the Office of the Ombudsman and contained the results of the Ombudsman’s illegal investigation into the ministry’s alleged misconduct was submitted along with the complaint.
The company afterward conducted an informal investigation into the matter, according to Dr. Warong, despite rejecting his earlier request for a proper investigation into the ministry’s conduct.
According to the unofficial investigation, Thaksin was merely transferred to the Police General Hospital on the night of August 22 last year as a precautionary measure, not because he actually had a life-threatening condition at the time, as the department had claimed.
He believed this was proof of the department’s misbehavior.
The department’s say that Thaksin was eligible for parole after spending about six weeks in the patient’s advanced ward was also false, according to Dr. Warong.
Under the regulations, according to Dr Warong, the heath problem that left a prisoner able to survive without care from others must be catastrophic, which evidently was not so in Thaksin’s case- considering his current state of health, he said.
The department reported on Tuesday that Thaksin had a regular screening test from the Department of Health that showed him to be in really poor health and needed extra care from others. At the time, Thaksin was granted special parole and an early release from his prison term.
The office defended every course of action taken in the management of Thaksin’s circumstance, from releasing him after six months in hospital confinement to moving him to Police General Hospital. According to the office statement, every action was determined and carried out legally.