A total of 65 directors of the centres for the protection of the destitute have been transferred out of their areas of responsibility to facilitate investigations by the Department of Social Development and Welfare and the Public Sector’s Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), the department director-general Mrs Napa Setthakorn told the Thai PBS on Saturday.
Of the 65 transferred directors, she said that disciplinary probes had been carried out against 14 of them and, so far, the director of Khon Kaen’s centre for the protection of the destitute which was the first to be exposed of fraudulent practice had been dismissed from government service.
She added that result of disciplinary probe against the director of Chiang Mai’s centre would be known at the end of this month. PS – EP
65 Thai directors of centres for the destitute transferred
