DSI schedules meeting to discuss lead on controversial funds transfer
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The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will meet on Friday to discuss a new lead in the controversial wiring of Bt2.5 billion by Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative to a mining company that has reportedly been inactive for a decade.
Dusadee Arayawuthi, deputy permanent secretary for Justice, said yesterday that after the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) recently seized additional assets worth Bt1.22 billion of former chairman Supachai Srisupaaksorn, investigators discovered that he had signed a cheque for Bt2.5 billion to S W Holding Group (Thailand) Co. The money was then put into the account of a mining company in Nakhon Sawan province, which has reportedly not been performing any mining business for a decade, he said.
Further investigation found that the application for a mining permit in 2013 might have been done in retrospect, he said. Hence, officials will check why a mining concession had been issued to an inactive company and whether this had anything to do with an alleged attempt to take over some 1,000 rai of mining land.
The investigators will ask DSI chief Suwana Suwannajutha to assign Pol Lt-Colonel Thawal Mangkhang, a DSI special investigations expert, to help coordinate between DSI and AMLO, an informed source said.
