NACC to look into corruption case against immigration officials on Chinese grey businesses
จากไชต์: Office of The National Anti - Corruption Commission (ONACC)
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The Royal Thai Police have suppressed on Chinese grey businesses who had allegedly broken the law after the police had raided Jin Ling pub and arrested alleged offenders including some government officials.
Legal action has been taken against 107 immigration officials and alleged accomplices who had been accused of illegally assisting Chinese grey businesses. Those government officials were supposed to adhere to the righteousness and not have abused their authority or tended to corrupt behaviours which could diminish the investors' confidence in the country.
Niwatchai Kasemmongkol, Secretary-General of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) who concurrently acts as spokesman of the NACC Office, confirmed that Chinese grey businesses have been suppressed for allegedly breaking the law in many cases in which some Thai nationals had been hired to open shell companies for them. The police raid on Jin Ling pub led to the arrest of a number of criminal suspects and government officials, including immigration officials against whom legal action has been taken.
Those immigration officials were alleged to have illegally extended the visa for the Chinese grey businesses and other foreigners to stay in the Kingdom.
In a latest development, the investigating police officers of Weluwan police station in the capital district of Khon Kaen province, headed by Pol.Maj.Gen.Namkiart Thirarojanapong, commander of the Metropolitan Police's Training Center, brought a case against 107 suspects, led by a former commander of Immigration, and including other alleged immigration officials attached to Immigration Division 4. The alleged crimes occurred in Khon Kaen, Amnart Charoen, Yasothon, Nongbua Lamphu, Udon Thani, Nakhon Ratchasima, Kalasin, Chaiyaphum, Roi Et, Buriram, Sakon Nakhon, Phrae, Chiang Mai, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Nakhon Si Thammarat and Nonthaburi. Most areas are under the jurisdiction of Immigration Division 4 and some are under the jurisdiction of Immigration Division 5. Complaints had been filed and accepted involving foreigners of Chinese nationality who had stayed in the Kingdom with their unlawfully extended visa under the pretext of working for a private educational foundation. Those immigration officials had allegedly evaded the law and regulations by illegally extending their visa to prolong their stay in the Kingdom. The illegal foreigners had organized a group among themselves to have committed various crimes which had caused social unrest, affected national security and rendered damage to the authorities.
Sources in the Royal Thai Police said the case which had been submitted to the NACC Office contains about 8,000 criminal acts reported in 139,000 pages and involving 107 alleged offenders. The case was filed in accordance with Section 61 of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Act.
The NACC is to determine whether the NACC Office may have the authority to proceed with the accepted case otherwise it will be returned to the Royal Thai Police.
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