Top bureaucrat sacked
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Sompong Arunrojpunya, an inspector-general at the Office of the Interior Ministry's Permanent Secretary, has been dismissed from civil service since June 23, according to the PM's Office announcement published in the Royal Gazette Wednesday.
The former civil servant, also former Beung Kan governor, was allegedly involved in the insecticide procurement scandal in 2011 in which insect disaster zones were falsely declared. The National Anti-Corruption Commission had set a fact-finding sub-committee to investigate Sompong and others since last October.
