DSI poised to drop lese majeste conspiracy case
The Department of Special Investigation is expected to conclude before Songkran its investigation of an alleged conspiracy to topple the monarchy, and recommend that the case be dropped for lack of evidence.
“Evidence is unclear and insufficient to identify culprits,” DSI deputy directorgeneral Pravesana Mulpramook said yesterday, in reference to the case known in Thai as the lom chao plot.
Pravesana was speaking after a meeting with Colonel Wijarn Jodtaeng, a legal adviser of the Centre for Resolution of the Emergency Situation, which initiated the legal proceedings in 2010 coinciding with the political disturbances involving the red shirts.
At the meeting, Wijarn submitted a box of documents and eight compact discs he said were additional evidence on the conspiracy.
But Pravesana said the evidence was nothing new and shed no light on any conspirators involved in the alleged plot.
Key suspects in the case included fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Pheu Thai MP Jatuporn Promphan.
