Public prosecutors have advised police to lay a harsher charge against a senior official of the National Anti-Corruption Commission who pointed gun at a taxi driver last month.
Prayut Phetkhun, deputy spokesman of the Office of the Attorney-General, said on Friday that Thung Song Hong station police charged Piset Nakapan, an assistant secretary-general of the NACC, with carrying a firearm in public without good reason, and threatening others.
The case was handed over to local prosecutors on Nov 14.
Prosecutors in Don Muang district have now returned the case to police and advised them to also charge the official with forcing a person's submission by a potential threat to their life. The charge, under Section 309 of the Criminal Code, carries a maximum jail term of five years and/or fine of 100,000 baht, Mr Prayut said.
The charges previously laid against Mr Piset carry a jail term of up to one month, a fine of up to 20,000 baht and confiscation of the gun.
The taxi's dashboard camera recorded Mr Piset getting out of his black Honda car, which had stopped in front of the cab, and pointing his pistol at the cabbie, inside in the government complex grounds on Chaeng Watthana Road in Bangkok's Laksi district on Oct 10.