Klongchan case: Daughter of tycoon to be questioned
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THE Department of Special Investigation plans to summon the daughter of Land and Houses chairman Anant Asavabhokhin and a SW Holding Group executive to question them over the alleged embezzlement at the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative.
Pol Lt-Colonel Somboon Sarasit, the DSI Bureau of Special Crime 3 chief, said Alisa Asavabhokhin would be asked to provide information about eight land plots in Pathum Thani that Supachai Srisupa-aksorn, former chairman of the cooperative, sold to her. Somboon said SW Holding Group executive Sathaporn Wattanasirinukul would be questioned about assets Supachai transferred to him.
He said the Special Case Screening Committee led by DSI deputy chief Lt-Colonel Wannapong Kacharak had resolved that the agency was authorised to probe all alleged money-laundering cases in relation to the Klongchan case without having to ask for Special Case Committee approval.
DSI investigators would ask DSI chief Suwana Suwanjutha to approve orders to summon Alisa and Sathaporn, he added.
Somboon said the DSI was working on five cases related to the Klongchan case and would place importance on the timing of asset transfers starting from February 2013, when the anti-money laundering law began covering embezzlement cases.
Commenting on the DSI’s probe into 33 suspicious loan contracts between the cooperative and 28 firms or individuals, Somboon said the investigators suspected most were fake and an attempt to cover up 878 cooperative cheques worth Bt10 billion in total that Supachai had signed. He said one firm that borrowed money had returned it, meaning the case now involved 27 firms or individuals.
