Yingluck graft probe 'will not be completed' this year
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The Office of the Attorney-General said yesterday that it would not be able to complete its graft investigation into former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the end of the year.
The office is probing Yingluck’s alleged involvement in irregularities and corruption linked to the scrapped rice-pledging scheme.
Litigation Department director-general Surasak Trirattrakul, who is on the 10-member joint Office of the Attorney-General/National Anti-Corruption Commission panel overseeing the case, told a press conference yesterday that there was contradictory information as to whether an alleged government-to-government rice deal took place or never happened.
As a result, more time was needed to conclude the probe.
Surasak said office chief Trakool Winitnaiphak had stressed that the case must be carried out in a straightforward fashion and must be fair to all parties involved in order to protect the nation and the public’s interests.
He said the joint panel would consider the shortcomings in the case, with the end of the month the earliest date for their meeting.
Surasak denied the office and the NACC had a different approach towards the case, saying both agencies had tried to collect as much evidence as possible.
He said all the evidence must be collected before the case was forwarded to the court.
