AEC 'has had long enough'
A high-ranking member of the Thai Rak Thai Party yesterday opposed a draft bill to extend the term of the Assets Examination Committee tasked with rooting out corruption involving the ousted Thaksin government.
"The AEC is ineffective, as shown by its inability to uncover evidence to back up its 13 cases of corruption allegedly linked to Thai Rak Thai and Thaksin," Kuthep Saikrajang said. If the AEC has not been able to prove its worth within a year, it should not be given extra time because this would amount to an unfair attempt to fault the former ruling party, he said. "I don't know why the National Legislative Assembly has chosen to debate the AEC's term instead of giving attention to addressing the people's grievances," he said. Reacting to Kuthep's remarks, AEC spokesman Sak Korsaengrueng said concerned parties were free to air their views on the extension. "No one should rush to judge the AEC before learning the outcomes of graft cases. Just wait and see the judicial decisions on the cases built by the AEC," he said, rejecting criticism that the AEC was a paper tiger.
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