Wissanu defends civil suit against Boonsong
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DEPUTY PM Wissanu Krea-ngam defended the integrity of the civil liability lawsuit filed against former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and five others, saying that since the case’s statute of limitations is only two years, the government had no cho
The six members of the previous government are being sued and face asset seizure over damages incurred from fake government-to-government rice deals.
Boonsong had said earlier that the due process of law was absent in his case because Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had invoked special powers under Article 44 to order asset seizure while a related criminal case was still pending in the Supreme Court.
The former minister is being sued for Bt1.7 billion of the Bt20 billion sought by the government for damages from the bogus contracts signed by the previous administration to allegedly sell 6.2 million tonnes of Thai rice to China.
Wissanu said Wednesday that the compensation lawsuit had been filed under the state officials’ civil liability law, so it was different from criminal cases pending in the Supreme Court and will take some time before a verdict is issued.
