DSI summary on PTT-OR corruption case is fake news, agency says
Investigation into fraud allegations is not yet over, DSI says
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) announced on Saturday that a summary of the investigation on a corruption case involving national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc and its subsidiary PTT Oil and Retail Business Plc (OR) is fake, as the investigation is not yet over.
DSI director general Pol Maj Yutthana Praedam was responding to an infographic on social media bearing a DSI logo claiming that the department has concluded that chief executives of PTT and OR had been involved in money-laundering and public fraud.
“This information is fake and did not come from the DSI,” he said.
Yutthana said the DSI had received a complaint from shareholders of PTT Plc urging it to investigate whether the operations of the company and its subsidiaries violate the Securities and Exchange Act of 1992 and its amendments.
He said the DSI accepted the case as there are reasons to believe that the alleged offences are of the nature of a special case. The department has coordinated with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to obtain necessary information, and submitted statements of witnesses to the Criminal Court on November 25, he said.
“We only submitted a summary of witnesses’ statements for the court’s consideration, and the investigation is not yet over,” Yutthana said.
