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Bangkok Post – B500bn digital wallet handout plan needs “independent monitors”

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin at a press conference about the government’s digital wallet scheme in November last year. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

More petitions calling for intervention by independent organisations in the government’s digital wallet handout scheme have been lodged, with critics saying the 500 billion baht scheme may jeopardise the country’s fiscal security if it doesn’t go well.

Pisit Leeahtam, a Democrat Party list-MP and former deputy minister of finance, petitioned the State Audit Office (SAO) on Friday to determine whether the scheme could breach the State Fiscal and Financial Discipline Act.

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