Somdej Chuang must testify in person over car scandal
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will not allow acting Supreme Patriarch Somdej Chuang to give written testimony in the investigation into an illegal classic Mercedes-Benz once registered under his name.
The DSI has already summoned more than two dozen witnesses in the case including people who donated money to buy the car and others who were involved in its registration, said DSI Bureau of Taxation Crime director Lt-Colonel Anurak Rojananirankit, the head of the investigation.
Anurak said investigators would consider the points they needed to cover in the testimony of Somdej Chuang, who is also called Somdej Phra Maha Ratchamangalacharn, after all the other witnesses had given their testimony.
Somdej Chuang cannot submit his testimony in written form, as has been insisted by Wat Paknam where he is abbot, because the testimony will involve interactive questioning, Anurak said.
