China View
2008-04-10
BANGKOK, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Assets Examination Committee (AEC) Thursday filed malfeasance charges against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, alleging he was involved in a 4-billion-baht (about 127 million U.S. dollars) bank loan for Myanmar.
The spokesman of the Office of Attorney General (OAG), Thanapit Mulpreuk, said the Office would handle the 1,300-page case submitted by AEC at a swifter pace because Thaksin is the only defendant in the case, according to Thai News Agency.
Thaksin, who was ousted in a military coup in September 2006 and remained in exile overseas until his return to Thailand this February, has been alleged of damaging state interests and abusing his powers to streamline the Export-Import Bank of Thailand's loan for Myanmar to buy telecom products from the Thaksin family business Shin Satellite Company.
The spokesman did not say how soon OAG would get through the deliberation process over the malfeasance charges against Thaksin before it may be forwarded to the court.
However, the AEC might act on its own by directly filing a lawsuit in court, should the OAG decide to drop it, he said.
Thaksin had, upon his return after 17 months' exile, reported to the Supreme Court and the OAG to face charges of corruption and abuse of power concerning a Bangkok land deal by his wife Pojaman in 2003, and an asset-concealing case in the family's SC Asset company.
He was released on bail by the two legal bodies.
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