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Thai Communications Board Chairman `Won't Be Blamed Directly' for Any Failings.
Byline: Kanchana Pleumjit
Aug. 2--Kraisorn Pornsutee would not be held directly responsible even if the CDMA mobile-phone project he helped to approve proves to be tainted, Wan Muhamad Nor Matha, the transport and communications minister, said yesterday.
Mr Kraisorn is the chairman of the Communications Authority of Thailand board and a strong supporter of the 29.9-billion-baht project.
Allegations of corruption, including 600 million baht in bribes, have surfaced since the project was approved last month. The CAT board accepted the proposal by little-known SBP Holding to build the cellular network and lease it back to the state agency for 15 years.
SBP is controlled by the same executives who formerly led Tawan Mobile Telecom, which had failed in attempts to market a CDMA (code division multiple access) system in Bangkok.
Mr Wan Nor said that Mr Kraisorn was not wrong even though the transparency of the lease project was in question. "It was not a matter of the CAT board ordering the CAT to carry out the project," Mr Wan Nor said. "Therefore all ...
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