Local administration organisations receive most graft complaints against
Local administration organisations received the most complaints for alleged corruption at 1,496 complaints followed by the Interior Ministry at 219 complaints and the Education Ministry at 218 complaints, said Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office Jirachai Moontongroy.
The issues most complained about were: money or state property embezzlement with 1,507 cases, rule breaking with 656 cases, procurement with 605 cases, bogus reimbursement for house rent with 39 cases, petrol corruption with 20 cases, and bogus reimbursement for medical treatments with 11 cases, he said.
Jirachai said that the office, which is authorised to follow through state agency corruption cases in civil, criminal and disciplinary punishments, is currently working on 2,838 cases of suspected current account deficit or state officials’ corruption, involving Bt11.383 billion in damages.
They involve 234 complaints about the central state agencies, 640 about regional agencies, 1,496 about local administrative bodies and 468 about state enterprise and public organisations, he said.
