The Board of Special Case Meeting No. 2/2566 Resolved to Take Up 1  Criminal Case as a Special Case

The Board of Special Case Meeting No. 2/2566 Resolved to Take Up 1  Criminal Case as a Special Case

                 On June 14, 2023 at 09:00 a.m. at the meeting room no.1, 1st floor of the DSI headquarters , there was the meeting no. 2/2566 of the Board of Special Case (BSC), chaired by Mr. Wissanu Krea-ngam, Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Minister of Justice, and attended by Director General of Department of Special Investigation Police Major Suriya Singhakamol as the member and the secretary of the BSC as well as17 high-level board members.

                 The key outcomes of the meeting are as follows:

                 1. The meeting resolved to improve the Special Case Investigation Course by extending the training period for the training module on the use of technology in the investigation of special cases and adding a module on the investigation into offenses related to information technology in order to keep up with current situations.

                 2. The meeting agreed to seek the Cabinet’s approval to issue a Ministerial Regulation Prescribing Additional Special Cases under section 21 paragraph one (1) of the Special Case Investigation Act, B.E. 2547 (2004) to include as Special Case offences additional criminal offences under the following 3 laws: law on digital asset business, law on derivatives, and law on cyber crime prevention and suppression.

                  3. The meeting approved anti-pyramid scheme measures, which focus on the confiscation and sharing of seized assets among victims in parallel with criminal proceedings, and push forward the concrete implementation of the National Agenda on combating pyramid schemes, with administrative and police authorities playing more active roles in prevention and suppression.

                  4. The meeting resolved that the following criminal case is to be investigated as special case under section 21 paragraph one (2) of the Special Case Investigation Act, B.E. 2547 (2004):

                 The 10 February 2021 fatal shooting of a Deputy Leader of the Band Platoon, 210th Military District, at Phrayodmueangkwang Camp in Kuruku Sub-district, Muang District, Nakhon Phanom Province, which might constitute criminal offenses under Sections 288 and 289 of the Penal Code