Chaiwat: Cash was for parks chief, not amulets

Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn, former chief of Kaeng Krachan National Park, arrives at the police Anti-Corruption Division office on Jan 4 to give evidence to support bribery allegations against Rutchada Suriyakul Na Ayutya, director-general of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department. (File photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The official who exposed the bribery scandal involving the country’s national parks chief has debunked claims that some of the cash found in the accused bureaucrat’s office was meant to pay for amulets.

Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn was responding to a statement reportedly made by a Pattani-based park official to police in the case of Rutchada Suriyakul Na Ayutya, the head of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP).