A Pheu Thai MP yesterday filed a complaint with National Anti-Corruption Commission against the Prime Minister and the Interior Minister for allowing conflict of interest, claiming the minister's family members hold shares in a construction company.
Pheu Thai Lamphun MP Sanguan Pongmanee and the party's spokesman Prompong Nopparit claimed a Cabinet resolution on March 10 approved a Bt408 million budget for additions to the Airport Link project. They said the wife and children of Interior Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul hold shares in Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, the company which won the contract.
He said Abhisit must also be responsible for the Cabinet resolution favouring Chaovarat's family.
"I ask the NACC to investigate Prime Minister Abhisit as the prime minister according to Article 171 that he must be directly related to (the case) just as (former prime minister) Thaksin (Shinawatra) was. The laws on country administration state clearly a prime minister must be responsible for all ministries," Sanguan said.
Thaksin was found guilty after his wife bought Ratchadaphisek land from the Financial Institutions Development Fund during his premiership. The law prohibits government officials and their spouses from contracting with an agency of which the official is in charge. Thaksin, as a prime minister, was considered also in charge of the FIDF.
Chaovarat, also Bhum Jai Thai Party leader, said he had declared his assets after many Cabinet reshuffles and did not conceal them. Also, he had had nothing to do with the company for a long time.
Moreover, he said, Sino-Thai was a public company in which anyone can buy shares; his children are mature persons according to the law and they could buy shares in any company.
Supachai Jaisamut, Bhum Jai Thai spokesman, said Chaovarat was planning to file a libel suit against Prompong related to the case.
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