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Former anti-graft official gets suspended jail term

Concealed assets included London property belonging to wife

Prayat Puangjumpa was fired from the NACC in August 2022 after being charged with asset concealment. (file photo).

A former deputy chief of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has been given a suspended sentence for concealing assets worth 227 million baht.

Prayat Puangjumpa was sentenced on Thursday to four months in jail and fined 10,000 baht, suspended for one year, by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions. 

The court also banned him from holding a government position for five years.

Prosecutors told the court earlier that in the declaration he made when he assumed his position on Jan 4, 2017,…

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