A group of 11 Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative (KCUC) members is urging the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to file a fresh charge of fraud against ex-KCUC chairman Supachai Srisupa-aksorn.
Led by Thammanoon Atthachote, the group said Supachai dishonestly persuaded members to invest more with the KCUC.
The petition was accepted by Pol Maj Charan Saenghiran, deputy director of the Special Case Administration Division.
Supachai was found guilty in March 2016 and sentenced by the Criminal Court to 32 years in jail for siphoning off 22.1 million baht from the cooperative on eight occasions from April 10 to Oct 8, 2013. The court reduced the sentence to 16 years as he confessed to his crimes.
In September the Appeal Court reduced the lower court's sentence from 16 years to 14 years, and then to seven years based on his confession.
The case against Supachai was brought to the Criminal Court in May 2015.
"We want the DSI to accept a public fraud case against him and we want the DSI to return the assets seized from the defendant to the KCUC depositors," Mr Thammanoon said.
The move came ahead of today's meeting between the DSI, the prosecution, the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo), the Legal Execution Department, the Cooperative Promotion Department and the KCUC members to discuss the seized assets.
The DSI has frozen 3.8 billion baht in assets connected to the embezzlement-hit KCUC and parties concerned are figuring out what to do after the Civil Court ruled against Supachai and 17 others who were ordered to pay compensation of 3.8 billion baht to the KCUC.
