Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom is among 21 people targeted in an investigative report forwarded to prosecutors by the National Anti-Corruption Commission over allegedly corrupt government-to-government rice deals consummated by the Yingluck Shinawatra government.
The dossier containing 67,000 pages was brought in 60 boxes to the Office of the Attorney-General by NACC assistant secretary-general Sakchai Methineepisarnku.
Mr Sakchai said the NACC is still investigating more than 100 rice-trading companies involved in the government sales, but added it should not take long to wrap up work.
Chutichai Sakhakorn, chief of the OAG's special-litigation department, who received the case file, said a working panel would be set up in the next few days to review the documents.
If the report included all needed evidence, he said, the OAG could indict the 21 individuals in the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Political Office-Holders in about a month.