3 Opposition MPs face suits
The Pheu Thai Party says it will file a defamation suit against three Democrat MPs for allegedly defaming Prime Minister Yingluck over the Four Seasons Hotel controversy. The three are party-list MP Chavanond Intarakomal-yasut, Nakhon Si Thammarat MP Thep
Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said party lawyers were drafting a criminal libel suit against the three for allegedly insulting Yingluck in a Blue Sky programme over her visit to the hotel on Feb 8. He said the party would let the PM decide if she wanted to file a civil suit for alleged slander.
According to Matichon-Online, Yingluck did not meet Settha Thawisin, a senior Sansiri executive, alone on Feb 8, but with a group of real estate developers such as Anant Assavaphoki, chairman of Land and Houses, and Deputy PM Kittiratt Na-Ranong. They discussed the government’s new city planning and the 2012 state appraisal land price, due to be announced in July.
The reports said Kittiratt also gave a speech at the seminar on “Next step of the Thai SME in 2012” at the hotel ballroom, organised by the FTI and Office of SME Promotion.
