The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) has asked the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) to seek help from British prosecutors to bring back a key suspect in the embezzlement scandal at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL).
CSD deputy chief Nos Sawettalek, the lead investigator on the case, said officials at the OAG and at Interpol in Bangkok are scheduled to meet with CSD investigators next Tuesday.
The officials will discuss the extradition of Kittisak Muttujad, who is thought to have information that could lead to the ringleader of a plot that sapped 1.4 billion baht from the university's coffers.
Police recently obtained information Mr Kittisak arrived in Britain last December and is still there.
Meanwhile, a group of about 30 lecturers and students led by Jirapa Vitayapirak, an applied arts lecturer and the former head of the teachers council, yesterday handed an open letter to Gen Surayud Chulanont, president of the KMITL council, asking him to work with the police more closely and restore the university's reputation.
Dressed in black, the group gathered at the KMITL president's office where a council meeting was being held. Ms Jirapa said the case has caused a crisis of faith in the KMITL's financial probity and raised concerns over its future.
"The money that's missing is our students' money. We came out in a symbolic action to put an end to this problem. A long-term solution must be put in place to avoid a repeat of the case," she said.
Gen Surayud said university executives and investigators are working swiftly, but he said the KMITL's financial transactions have always been watched carefully.
He said all flaws found in its systems have been fixed since the scandal came to light.
Asked whether the university would stop banking with Siam Commercial Bank, the privy councillor said that was up to the university's executives.