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NACC to drop THAI charges

A Thai Airways Airbus A340-600 touches down in a landing test in Suvarnabhumi airport in Samut Prakan province in 2005. (File photo: SOMCHAI POOMLARD)

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has dropped charges filed against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and three others in a corruption case linked with Thai Airways International’s (THAI) purchase of 10 Airbus aircraft between 2003 and 2004, according to one of the parties charged in the case.

Pichet Sathirachawal, a former deputy transport minister named as one of the accused, disclosed the NACC’s ruling on Wednesday.

The four were accused of dereliction of duty over their roles in the aircraft procurement, which was alledgedly found by an investigation…

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