Seven more sued in G-to-G rice deal
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Office of the Attorney General has resolved to sue seven executives of rice mills accused of supporting an alleged irregularity involving the previous government’s rice-pledging scheme.
Public prosecutors Wednesday filed their petition with the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders against the private-company executives, who were alleged to have collaborated with former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom in a rice deal that was claimed to be done between the Thai and Chinese governments.
The seven executives bought rice from government stock, supposedly to be delivered to China, but the rice actually was still circulated in the Thai market, Deputy Attorney General Chutichai Sakhakorn told a press conference Wednesday.
Boonsong and 20 others have already been charged in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders.
