Pita, meanwhile, said he was holding the shares as an executor of his father’s estate.
Earlier, the EC had announced that it has endorsed Pita as an election candidate, and would instead form a fact-finding panel to see if Pita has violated Article 151 of the Election Act by contesting despite knowing he was not qualified.
This announcement prompted legal experts, including outgoing Deputy PM Wissanu Krea-ngam, to say the case should be tried in the Criminal Court, not Constitutional Court.
More confusion was added to the subject a few days ago when some media quoted sources from the fact-finding panel as saying that the panel will ask the EC to send the case to Constitutional Court.
