SECURITY
Deputy PM insists CRES spending above board
- Published: 23/12/2010 at 05:02 AM
- Newspaper section: News
Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban has defended the spending of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation during its eight months of operations.
Mr Suthep said yesterday that all the CRES's expenditure was transparent.
Although sources at the army insist they have records to show the CRES's bills came to just over 2 billion baht, figures previously revealed by military officers indicated the cost of running the centre might have been much higher.The centre was set up in April this year, taking in staff from the military and the police following violence at red shirt protests on Ratchadamnoen Avenue.
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- Writer: Wassana Nanuam
- Position: Reporter
