Prayut to chair anti-graft panel to integrate action
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will chair an anti-corruption panel to evaluate and translate policies into concrete action, a source said yesterday.
Combating corruption is one of the National Council for Peace and Order’s urgent policies, but there has been no centre to coordinate with agencies to produce results.
Prayut cited Article 42 of the interim constitution, which allows the NCPO to ask the Cabinet to create integrated cooperation from all state agencies to efficiently fight graft.
Prayut’s order states that the National Anti-Corruption Panel would be chaired by the NCPO chief, and the deputy NCPO chief for legal affairs and justice would serve as deputy chairman.
The NCPO chief can assign up to three NCPO members and nine directors and may ask the Cabinet to appoint officials in anti-corruption agencies as directors.
The panel would draw up measures to integrate efforts among state and private anti-corruption agencies. It would follow up on work, support enforcement of laws and present results and recommendations for the anti-corruption mechanism to the Cabinet.
