ACC prioritises rice scheme cases
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The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) will set up a minor committee and deploy all its investigation officials to work on the more than 850 cases relating to the rice-pledging scheme to expedite the process, said its secretary general Prayon
The investigation would kick off at the end of October and was set for completion within six months, the official said.
The PACC commissioner would then deliver the verdicts, he added.
Prayong said the PACC had received more than 850 complaints related to state officials who had worked in rice warehouses during the scandalous rice-pledging scheme under the Yingluck administration.
He said if the PACC followed regular procedures, the process could take up to two years to complete and would unnecessarily add up the agency’s work for a long period of time.
Similar wrongdoings in similar times would be put in the same category to hasten investigations, the secretary general said.
