Rakchanok leads the parliamentary budget oversight committee to confront the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) over the building collapse and 10 abandoned buildings, threatening to cut the 2027 budget if no answers are given. The meeting aims to press for accountability on these issues.
On 12 June 2026 GMT+7, at the Office of the Auditor General (OAG), Ms. Rakchanok Srinok, a party-list MP from the Prachachon Party and chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget Preparation and Monitoring, along with her team, held a joint meeting with the OAG to follow up on progress regarding the nationwide abandoned OAG building construction projects and the investigation into the OAG building collapse.
Before the meeting, Ms. Rakchanok said there were two main issues. First, about 10 OAG buildings nationwide remain unfinished because contractors abandoned the work, especially in Pattaya, where a completed building is unused. She wants to follow up on solutions, since the OAG is a financial oversight agency and the public expects greater transparency and better internal management than other agencies.
The second issue concerns the OAG building collapse, which has become a symbol of corruption. The committee will press for the full investigation report from the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning, which has been classified as “secret” and thus inaccessible to the previous committee. She affirmed the committee’s authority to obtain and disclose this secret report to identify those responsible and to oversee compensation for affected Thai and foreign victims who have yet to receive justice. Regarding legal cases, she said officials within the OAG or those in power have so far taken far too little responsibility.
Ms. Rakchanok also said that in the upcoming 2027 budget deliberations, the issue of abandoned buildings would be considered to decide whether to approve funds for new OAG construction. If previous budgets have not been well used and the OAG cannot provide clear answers, new funding requests must be strictly reviewed. She acknowledged concerns about the justice process and cases at the National Anti-Corruption Commission but believes that close public and media scrutiny will help prevent the matter from being quietly dismissed.