KMITL staff, students call on bank to help

SCB responded by saying it had been cooperating with police and KMITL all along.
In the letter, KMITL students and teachers urged SCB and other related commercial banks to cooperate with the police probe.
SCB executive vice-president for fraud management, Pongsit Chaichutpornsu, admitted the bank’s disciplinary committee had ruled that they did not trust former bank employee Songklod Sriprasong at the centre of this case.
Songklod had violated procedure by withdrawing money without a confirming signature. Though the bank’s inquiry into KMITL executives confirmed the withdrawn amount, it only asked Songklod to resign, Pongsit said. Since the action was not regarded as corruption, but merely suspicious, his name was not blacklisted, he added.
Police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said police would submit an extradition request for another suspect Kittisak Mattujad, who fled to the United Kingdom, to the public prosecutor today. Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police took Kittisak’s mother, Radom Mattujad, to Min Buri Court to seek a 12-day detention order.
They are probing allegations that she helped Kittisak to launder the stolen money by buying and reselling assets worth Bt100 million in 2011-2012. Police objected to her bail release as they consider her a flight risk. Radom claims innocence.
CSD deputy commander Pol Colonel Nos Sawetlek said police also kept Kittisak’s sister, Jutharat Padpai, in custody pending further investigation. The two women testified to police on Monday, as they were among 29 people summoned for suspected links to the case.
As for gold shop owner Surapop Tangpradit, Nos said the man claimed Kittisak wired him Bt6.2 million for investment and that he was not involved in the theft.
Police have dropped the request for his arrest warrant.