". . . Assets Examination Committee spokesman Sak Korsaengreung said the investigation into the Ratchadiphisek land transaction involving Thaksin's wife Khunying Pojaman Shinawatra may have hit a stumbling block.
The AEC has ruled that Pojaman bought the plot illegally due to a conflict of interest because Thaksin was the ultimate supervisor for the liquidation of state property, but the interim government sees nothing wrong with the deal, said Sak.
He said he was not optimistic that the AEC could get to the bottom of corruption because many interim government ministers had served under the deposed government.
"Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula is an example. He used to oversee this case and guaranteed that Pojaman's land purchase was completely legal," said AEC secretary Kaewsan Atipho. "
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Pojaman land deal: going nowhere
Started by Sexpat, Nov 26 2006 10:43 AM
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Posted 26 November 2006 - 11:40 AM
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...but the interim government sees nothing wrong with the deal, said Sak.
Either that's a misquote or a major piece of news.
If the military junta-appointed government sees no statutory conflict of interest here, where the law clearly forbid government leaders or their spouses from contracting with agencies under their supervision, then it's hard to see where this interim government is ever going to find a conflict of interest.
Needless to say, the fact that the interim government's finance minister approved this deal as legal, when he was working for another government, in itself seems to present a ticklish conflict of interest. It also presents in the starkest possible terms the looming sense of futility which seems to be engulfing the leaders of this coup.
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