NACC targets 38 ex-senators
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The national anti-graft agency decided yesterday to initiate impeachment proceedings against 38 former senators accused of violating the abolished 2007 Constitution by backing amendments that would have allegedly benefited them.
In a majority vote yesterday, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) resolved to call on the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to impeach the ex-senators in question, NACC secretary-general Sansern Poljieak said.
The NACC has decided to forward its investigation results and accompanying documents to the NLA for further action, Sansern added.
He said the NACC still had the power to seek the former senators’ impeachment even though the 2007 Constitution was abolished after the coup.
The NACC had agreed to look into the case and had followed due process even before the coup, Sansern explained. Also, he added, the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act is still in force, which empowers the NACC to investigate the case.
Many of the targeted ex-senators had been elected from the provinces and some of them are now members of the NLA or the National Reform Council, including Direk Thuengfang.
