A top anti-corruption official in Thailand has been accused of concealing millions of dollars in assets including an upscale London apartment, ...
BANGKOK: A top anti-corruption official in Thailand has been accused of concealing millions of dollars in assets including an upscale London apartment, according to the agency tasked with tackling endemic graft in the kingdom.
The remaining assets were worth a total of US$400,000, according to a nine-month investigation by the commission, which said it will ask the attorney general to indict Prayat. The case had raised public concerns and risked further damaging the reputation of anti-corruption investigators in the country, said Sunai Phasuk of Human Rights Watch.Many in Thailand's upper ranks of power are dogged by some history of graft, fuelled by tainted officials, underground mafias and shady patronage networks.
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