Veera calls for corruption court with death penalty powers
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The charter drafters have been urged to set up a corruption court empowered to give corrupt officials the death penalty if the damage to the state of their crimes was more than Bt5 million.
Veera Somkwamkid, secretary-general of the People’s Network against Corruption made the suggestion to Constitution Drafting Committee chairman Borwornsak Uwanno Wednesday in a letter submitted to him.
Veera said his eight-year experience in an anti-corruption campaign made him realise that lax and ineffective laws caused anti-corruption efforts to fail. He proposed that corruption cases have no statute of limitations and a special court be set up to try corruption cases to speed up court procedures.
