Klongchan probe nears end
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THE DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) is preparing to conclude its investigation into a major embezzlement at Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative later this month.
Available evidence suggests that more than Bt10 billion might have been stolen from the cooperative via dozens of fake loan contracts, a senior official at the DSI revealed yesterday.
Pol Lt Colonel Somboon Sarasit, who heads the DSI’s Special Crime Bureau 3, said a few companies had already come forward to say that their signatures in the contracts were forged.
The ongoing investigation has revealed that 33 loan contracts between the cooperative and 28 firms or individuals look suspicious. The sums stated in the contracts involve over Bt10 billion, matching amounts from 878 cheques issued by the cooperative when Supachai Srisupa-aksorn was its president.
He is now detained over the crime.
“In addition, some companies that entered into these suspicious contracts are founded by Supachai,” Somboon said.
