NACC urged to reopen case against Abhisit and Suthep

The group, accompanied by lawyers Winyat Chartmontree and Chokchai Angkaew, submitted the letter in response to the Supreme Court’s decision last month to dismiss the case.
The court had reasoned that the matter was not in its jurisdiction, saying that the investigation should have been conducted by the NACC and the case brought instead to the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders.
The letter was received by the Attorney-General’s Office spokesman, Lieutenant Somnuek Siangkong.
“The Attorney-General will consider it and pass down orders,” he said. “As this is a crucial issue, I believe he will consider it and give an order quickly to ensure justice.”
Winyat, also the secretary-general of the United Lawyers For Rights And Liberty, said the Supreme Court’s statement should be legally binding and counted as new evidence.
He said the group had decided to bring the case to the Office of the Attorney-General so it could give an order for the NACC to take charge.
The lawyer also called for the NACC to disclose the case file against Abhisit and Suthep that it had dismissed in 2015 to show whether it had investigated the victims’ deaths.
The NACC might have dismissed the case because it did not consider the deaths and had focused only on the malfeasance case, Winyat said. However, he said the NACC should now also take into consideration the Supreme Court’s recent statement.
If the NACC ruled that Abhisit and Suthep were guilty of malfeasance, the red-shirt group also plans to bring to court the murder charge that was filed against them earlier.
Meanwhile, NACC president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit said that if new evidence was presented, the case could be reconsidered. If not, it was impossible to reconsider the case, he said.
An examination of whether new evidence had been presented was underway, he said.