She claims Thakkar has concealed assets in the British Virgin Islands.
The revelations were embarrassing, and Mr. Lee had to apologize and pay millions of dollars in taxes on those concealed assets.
On grounds it chose not to reveal, Thailand's Constitutional Court overturned by eight to seven a ruling last year by the new National Counter-Corruption Commission, which had found that the country's richest businessman, Thaksin Shinawatra, had concealed assets worth tens of millions of dollars while serving as deputy prime minister.
But the board said it would continue examining the records of business owners and executives found to have concealed assets or smuggled them abroad after running their companies into so poor a state that government subsidies were needed to keep them alive.
But as they seized the company, regulators said they encountered serious obstruction, with bank officials concealing asset withdrawals.
Former Justice Diane Hathaway of the Michigan Supreme Court pleaded guilty to bank fraud on Tuesday for concealing assets.
HMRC added it "reveals extensive use of complex offshore structures to conceal assets by wealthy individuals and companies".
UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, acknowledged in February that it helped American clients conceal assets from the United States government.
Pocklington was arrested in March 2009 for concealing assets during bankruptcy proceedings in which he claimed to have debts of more than $19 million and assets of about $2,900.
NPB, a private Swiss bank, must pay a $5 million penalty for aiding U.S. clients in concealing assets and income from the IRS.
"A significant amount of money was filtered through a number of entities in an apparent attempt to conceal assets," Brick Kane, the president of Robb Evans, told me.
