Interpol asked to find Thaksin's new address

Seripisut was acting at the request of public prosecutors, who need to give Thaksin' permanent address to the court for the indictment relating to the Ratchadapisek land purchase. He said he has yet to get a report back from Interpol on Thaksin's regular place of abode.

But AEC member Udom Fuangfung said he would submit a document to the Supreme Court today stating the permanent addresses of Thaksin and his wife as Bang Plad and Dusit districts, res-pectively, in Bangkok. That in-formation comes from homes registered in their names.

Udom will also ask chiefs of Bang Plad and Dusit districts to testify in the court that the Shinawatras have not changed their house registration.

Meanwhile, the Assets Examination Committee yesterday issued the fifth freeze order on a further Bt2.6 billion of proceeds from the sale of Shin Corp shares - in an account belonging to Bhanapot Dama-pong, Thaksin's brother-in-law.

The AEC found that before June 4, Bhanapot used Bt2.6 billion to buy 28.9 million Thai Farmer Bank's shares, 15.9 million shares of SC Asset, and 57 million shares of Thanachart Fund.

The AEC is still hunting a further Bt2 billion from Bt19 billion transferred to Bhanapot from the Shin sale proceeds.

An AEC panel tasked with finding the money from the Shin share sale will seek an AEC ruling to issue a sixth freeze order for Bt1.5 billion on Monday. The money was earlier in Bhanapot's bank accounts but withdrawn to increase capital for some firms.

The Assets Examination Committee refused yesterday to bow to demands from the ex-PM to revoke the freeze on his bank accounts. Thaksin submitted a letter via his lawyer on Tuesday that threatened legal action against the AEC if it did not revoke the freeze on his and his family's accounts and halt inquiries within three days.

Spokesman Sak Korsaen-gruang said the only way the AEC could remove the order was for the people involved to submit proof that the money had been earned honestly. "If we revoke the freeze order just because of this letter, we will be accused of malfeasance," he said.

Chinnicha Wongsawat, daughter of Thaksin's younger sister Yaowapa Wongsawat, whose bank accounts were frozen, submitted a letter to the AEC showing she received Bt100 million transferred from Bhannapot.

Sak said an AEC panel headed by Amnuay Thantara would check and see if the suspended account should be "unfrozen".

The AEC decided to allow Pinthongta Shinawatra to postpone giving statements on the Shin share sale from July 18 to August 14 after she said she would sit for an exam at Cass Business School in London.

Budsarakham

Sinlapalavan

The Nation