Minsitry probes official’s role in hit-run case
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The Justice Ministry has launched an investigation into allegations that one of its senior officials had approved “questionable” efforts to clear the name of a hit-and-run convict.
Targeted in the probe is the ministry’s deputy permanent secretary, Pol Colonel Dusadee Arawuit, for his decision to help former teacher Jomsap Saenmuangkhot seek a retrial over the fatal road accident for which she was convicted and jailed.
Dusadee has now admitted that he knew that Sap Wapi – a man who claimed that he was responsible for the road death – had failed a lie-detector test.
“We have already set up a fact-finding committee,” the ministry’s permanent secretary Wisit Wisitsora-at said on Tuesday.
The move is in response to a complaint filed by the Help Crime Victims Club.
