Supoth claims millions earned from second job

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Suphoth Sublom, the suspended permanent secretary for Transport being investigated for possible corruption, yesterday told the national anti-graft agency that he earned extra income by moonlighting as an engineering designer for 20 years. However, a member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), which is investigating the allegations, yesterday said Suphoth could not produce documents to prove his claim.

NACC member Preecha Lertkamolmart said the agency asked Suphoth to appear before it again on March 26 as his testimony was incomplete. "He has to come by himself to explain the source of his extra income," Preecha said.

The NACC members needed to study more than 200 pages of documents that Suphoth submitted an hour before he met the graft-busters yesterday, according to Preecha, who added the agency would also have to interrogate more than 10 witnesses named by Suphoth.

After meeting with commission members for over three hours, Suphoth told reporters yesterday that he had "answered all the NACC's questions" - verbally, in writing and with supporting documents".

He insisted that only Bt5 million was stolen from his house in November. Police seized Bt18 million from the suspected robbers. Suphoth said he was not concerned about his case. He said he had earned extra money honestly between 1977 and 1997 by doing extra work producing engineering designs.

Preecha said Suphoth had not been able to produce documents to support his claim. "Suphoth said it was 20 years ago, and that the banks could not help because they don't have records going back further than 10 years," Preecha said.

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Edited March 9, 2012 by FarangFarang