The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Wednesday recommended the indictment of Panthongtae Shinawatra, son of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and two others in relation to the Krungthai Bank loan scandal.
DSI officials took Mr Panthongtae, Kanchanapa Honghern (secretary to Mr Panthongtae's mother Khunying Pojaman na Pombejra), and her husband Wanchai Honghern with them to the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG), where they presented their case report.
DSI investigators did not seek to involve Kesinee Jipipop, Mrs Kanchanapa's mother, in the indictment.
Prayut Phetkhun, deputy spokesman of the OAG, said the office ordered the three to show up again on Sept 5 to hear its decision.
A DSI source said the DSI had already questioned additional witnesses proposed by Mr Panthongtae and was confident that its case report was complete.
Mr Panthongtae and the two others are accused of laundering money lent to subsidiaries of property developer Krisdamahanakorn by state-owned Krungthai Bank in 2003 and 2004, when his father Thaksin was prime minister, even though the company was a non-performing debtor.
They allegedly received cheques worth 10 million baht and 26 million baht tied to the unsecured Krungthai Bank loans.
