BANGKOK, June 21 (NNN-Bernama) — Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) will call more witnesses to provide testimony on the inquiry into Pita Limjaroenrat, the front-runner for prime minister’s eligibility to compete in the general election last month.
The 42-year-old progressive Move Forward Party leader was under investigation for holding 42,000 shares in the shuttered television company ITV Public Company.
EC member Thitichet Nuchanart said the poll agency will call Pita and iTV executives for questioning.
“The EC will examine pieces of evidence including the record of iTV’s latest shareholder meeting and the meeting’s transcribed minutes,” he said.
He added that the poll agency would obtain information on assets declaration made by Pita with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for investigation.
Earlier, Pita explained that the shares in iTV Plc were registered in his name because the court had appointed him as the administrator representing other heirs of his late father, who passed away in 2006.
On June 6, Pita disclosed that he had transferred his shares in iTV Plc to another heir in a move seen as an effort to clear any impediment in his quest for the prime ministership.
— NNN-BERNAMA