The National Anti-Corruption Commission’s (NACC) investigation into the alleged special treatment of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, at the Police General Hospital, is likely to drag on longer as the commission is waiting for more information from relevant agencies.
NACC Secretary-General Saroj Poengramphan said today that the NACC is trying to collect as much evidence as possible, but he cannot not predict how long it will take for the case to be wrapped up.
He admitted that the NACC had already received evidence from the Corrections Department and the Police General Hospital, but he is not sure whether it is complete, adding that he is not fully aware of what the evidence contains.
The NACC secretary-general said that, for now, the commission has not filed charges against any official for facilitating Thaksin’s stay on the 14th floor of the Police General Hospital, on the basis of dubious claims of life-threatening illnesses, without spending a day of his sentence in prison.
Thaksin was admitted to the Police General Hospital in August 2023, where he spent six months before he was discharged after being granted parole.
Saroj said Thaksin’s case is different from that involving 44 former MPs of the now defunct Move Forward Party, over their attempt to amend Section 112 of the Criminal Code, commonly referred to as the lèse majesté law.
He said that the NACC had notified the former Move Forward MPs to come forward to acknowledge the charges against them, adding that he expects the case to be finalised in the middle of this year.
