DSI official faces probe over witness threats and budget fraud

MGR Online•Politics•19m ago

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A DSI official is facing requests for severe disciplinary action over allegations of witness intimidation and the fraudulent disbursement of tens of millions of baht.

•A request was filed to investigate a DSI official for severe disciplinary misconduct regarding the suspected misuse of tens of millions of baht in investigation budgets.
•The official is accused of intimidating witnesses in a case involving the rigging of Senator elections.
•Allegations suggest government funds were used to hire witnesses to provide false testimony against the Bhumjaithai Party.
•High-ranking DSI supervisors are suspected of participating in the approval of false disbursement documents.

Overview

•A request has been submitted to establish a severe disciplinary investigation committee for a specific DSI official.
•The Ministry of Justice had previously established a fact-finding committee regarding the DSI official's intimidation of witnesses in a Senator rigging case.
•There are suspicions that tens of millions of baht in DSI government funds were used outside official purposes to incentivize witnesses to provide false testimony against the Bhumjaithai Party.
•A Ministry of Justice source indicated that high-ranking DSI supervisors may have knowingly approved false disbursement documents.
•The DSI official played a key role in reporting investigation results to support the DSI Director-General and the then-Minister of Justice to accept the Senator rigging case as Special Case 24/2025.
•The DSI official previously served as the office manager for a former DSI Deputy Director-General who was a friend of the former Minister of Justice.
•The DSI official acted as a primary mechanism in auditing phone records of various individuals to link evidence in the case.

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Key Quotes

Ministry of Justice source

"In addition to coercion, threats, and deception for unlawful purposes to induce witnesses to testify according to prepared scripts or statements."

นอกจากจะมีการบังคับ ขู่เข็ญ ข่มขู่ ล่อลวง เพื่อกระทำโดยมิชอบด้วยกฎหมายประการอื่นใดๆ เพื่อจูงใจให้พยานได้ให้การตามบทหรือถ้อยคำสำนวนที่ได้จัดเตรียมไว้

Key Entities

Organization

Department of Special Investigation(กรมสอบสวนคดีพิเศษ)ℹ️

The agency whose official is under investigation for budget fraud and witness intimidation.

DSI

Abbreviation for the Department of Special Investigation.

Ministry of Justice(กระทรวงยุติธรรม)ℹ️

The ministry overseeing the DSI and the source of the reported investigation details.

Bhumjaithai Party(พรรคภูมิใจไทย)ℹ️

The political party that witnesses were allegedly paid to falsely accuse in the Senator rigging case.