Amid the swirling storm of controversy, Move Forward Party MP for Rayong, Nakhonchai Khunnarong made a public statement on his Facebook account regarding his criminal conviction in a theft case over 20 years ago. In his post, he expressed his willingness to shoulder the blame and depart from his role. He confirmed that he would be stepping down in just one week.
No sooner had the controversy picked up speed, than the election committee of Rayong delved deep into the allegations and discovered that Nakhonchai had indeed served a jail sentence of a year and a half in 1999 due to an issue related to theft. The MP claimed that friends he was partying with had stolen a woman’s watch, and he caught blame for the theft along with one other friend.
As a consequence of this newfound information, the committee requested the decisions of the Election…
