PAO chief returns from US to face interrogation

PAO chief returns from US to face interrogation

Boonlert Buranupakorn, president of the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organisation. (file photo)
Boonlert Buranupakorn, president of the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organisation. (file photo)

The head of Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organisation who is being investigated over letters allegedly containing misinformation on the draft constitution has cut short his holiday in the United States and will report to the 11th Military Circle in Bangkok on Friday, a senior soldier said Thursday.

Boonlert Buranupakorn arrived at Chiang Mai airport on Thursday evening, Matichon Online quoted Maj Gen Kosol Pratumchart, the commander of the 33rd Military Circle in Chiang Mai, as saying. 

Maj Gen Kosol said authorities talked to Mr Boonlert but did not detain him. A senior soldier will accompany him to the 11th Military Circle on Friday but the flight and time for departure are not known. 

Meanwhile, Spring News TV reported that police officers led by Provincial Police Region 5 deputy commander Tinnapat Poomarin met Mr Boonlert at the airport and presented him with a summons. 

They then took him to Provincial Police Region 5 for questioning. Mr Boonlert, who has been suspended from duty without pay, told reporters he had returned to Thailand prematurely to report to authorities and assert his innocence over the accusations against him.  

Police said they had evidence showing that the president of the Chiang Mai PAO was involved in the delivery of letters deemed to be misleading about the draft charter and recovered from the company he owns and elsewhere in the northern province over the weekend.   

The letters are said to contain distorted information that claimed the draft charter would cancel the government's 30-baht healthcare scheme, monthly payments to the elderly and free schooling, according to police. 


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