Opposition fires shots at Thai PM

Fri, 17 Nov 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

BANGKOK (AP): Firing the latest shot in a tit-for-tat
political battle, the party posing the biggest challenge to Prime
Minister Chuan Leekpai in upcoming elections has accused his
finance minister of violating financial disclosure laws.

Thai Rak Thai Party, widely tipped to upset Chuan's Democrat
Party at the Jan. 6 polls, said it would ask the National Counter
Corruption Commission to investigate Finance Minister Tarrin
Nimmanahaeminda for shares he allegedly held in a travel company.

Adisorn Piengket, a senior Thai Rak Thai member, told
reporters that Tarrin failed to report his 60,000 stocks worth 6
million baht ($140,000) in the company, Coral Reef Cabana, when
he was appointed finance minister in 1997.

The allegation by Thai Rak Thai was an apparent attempt to
deflect attention from an NCCC investigation into party leader
Thaksin Shinawatra's business activities.

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