Ex-education minister Somsak loses home following court ruling
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The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders has ruled in favour of the seizure request of a Bt16 million home belonging to former Chart Thai Pattana Party MP Somsak Prissananantakul, after he failed to adequately explain how he got
Somsak, a key figure in the party and a former education minister, said he accepted the court’s verdict Thursday.
Public prosecutors last year filed the case, asking the court to seize the ex-party list MP’s property, which he had failed to declare when he was a minister.
The house was built in 1998 in his hometown in Angthong province.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission ruled against him with a majority vote in response to his assets declaration as a political-office holder last year, before public prosecutors proceeded with the case.
