29/09/2009
Bangkok Post
The National Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday found former prime minister Samak Sundaravej and former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama (pictured) violated the constitution in signing a joint communique supporting Cambodia's bid to list Preah Vihear temple as a world heritage site without parliamentary approval last year.
Klanarong Chanthik, the NACC spokesman, said the commission voted 6:3 in finding Mr Samak and Mr Noppadon violated Article 190 of the constitution.
The Samak cabinet wrongfully passed a resolution allowing Mr Noppadon to sign the Thai-Cambodian communique supporting the listing of Preah Vihear as a world heritage site with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) without prior approval from parliament.
For this offence, the NACC will ask the Constitution Court to remove Mr Samak and Mr Noppadon from the cabinet - even though they are no longer in government - as set down in Article 270.
The anti-graft commission also found the two to have violated Article 157 of the Criminal Code and abused their authority.
For this violation, they will be charged in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions, Mr Klanarong said.
The NACC investigated altogether 44 people in this case. They included serving cabinet members and government officials. The commission resolved to dismiss the complaint against the others.
Mr Noppadon was foreign minister in the Samak administration when he signed the communique with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18 last year.
The ministers investigated by the NACC who served under Mr Samak and are now in the present cabinet are Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti, Information and Communications Minister Ranongrak Suwunchwee and Deputy Finance Minister Pradit Phataraprasit.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday found former prime minister Samak Sundaravej and former foreign minister Noppadon Pattama (pictured) violated the constitution in signing a joint communique supporting Cambodia's bid to list Preah Vihear temple as a world heritage site without parliamentary approval last year.
Klanarong Chanthik, the NACC spokesman, said the commission voted 6:3 in finding Mr Samak and Mr Noppadon violated Article 190 of the constitution.
The Samak cabinet wrongfully passed a resolution allowing Mr Noppadon to sign the Thai-Cambodian communique supporting the listing of Preah Vihear as a world heritage site with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) without prior approval from parliament.
For this offence, the NACC will ask the Constitution Court to remove Mr Samak and Mr Noppadon from the cabinet - even though they are no longer in government - as set down in Article 270.
The anti-graft commission also found the two to have violated Article 157 of the Criminal Code and abused their authority.
For this violation, they will be charged in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions, Mr Klanarong said.
The NACC investigated altogether 44 people in this case. They included serving cabinet members and government officials. The commission resolved to dismiss the complaint against the others.
Mr Noppadon was foreign minister in the Samak administration when he signed the communique with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on June 18 last year.
The ministers investigated by the NACC who served under Mr Samak and are now in the present cabinet are Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti, Information and Communications Minister Ranongrak Suwunchwee and Deputy Finance Minister Pradit Phataraprasit.
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