BANGKOK, Jan 20 — Ruengkrai Leekitwattana, proxy for five Pheu Thai party members including former deputy prime minister/foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul, filed a lawsuit with the Criminal Court today accusing Pakdee Pothisiri, a member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), of lacking the qualification to sit in the anti-graft panel.
The party also accused other NACC members Panthep Klanarongran, Vicha Mahakun and Vichai Vivitsevi of allowing Mr Pakdee to work as an NACC member.
Mr Ruengkrai said Mr Pakdee was not qualified to sit in the NACC as he had failed to resign from Government Pharmaceutical Organization-Merieux Biological Products Co within 15 days after assuming his office at the NACC.
The NACC ignored a complaint about Mr Pakdee's qualifications claiming it had no power to question an NACC member's qualifications and that regardless the Senate had already considered his case.
Mr Ruengkrai said that the Senate had never done so. (MCOT online news)
