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 Nobody was injured in the overnight attack, the second on the
agency's offices this week, police said on Friday. It was not clear
who threw the grenades. Supporters of Prime Minister Yingluck
Shinawatra have been demonstrating at the building this week.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission is examining the alleged
failure of Yingluck to stop corruption and stem huge losses in a
government rice-buying program.
It is widely expected to recommend her impeachment by the Senate. If
the Senate takes up the case, Yingluck will have to step aside, with
a deputy prime minister expected to take over. If she is found
guilty by the Senate, she has to step down.
Her supporters, who have been restrained during five months of
anti-government protests in the capital, are starting to mobilize
and are planning their own big rally, or series of rallies, on April
5.
Anti-government demonstrators resumed street protests on Monday
after lying low for weeks. Their rally on Saturday is expected to
draw up to 50,000 people Paradorn Pattanathabutr, a security adviser
to the prime minister, told Reuters.
"We don't expect any violence at the rally but provocateurs might
try to stir trouble to discredit the government side," Paradorn
said.
Thailand has been in crisis since former premier Thaksin Shinawatra,
Yingluck's brother, was ousted in a 2006 coup. The conflict broadly
pits the Bangkok-based middle class and royalist establishment
against the mostly poorer, rural supporters of the Shinawatras.
The turmoil entered a fresh phase in November, when anti-government
protesters first took to the streets, with 23 people killed during
the political violence over the following months
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The protesters disrupted a general election on February 2 and the
ballot was annulled by the Constitutional Court this month.
Yingluck heads a caretaker administration with limited powers,
unable to take any big policy decisions binding on the next
government.
The political paralysis is hurting the economy.
Data on Friday showed factory output fell 4.42 percent in February
from a year before, the 11th fall in a row.
And although customs data on Wednesday logged a 2.4 percent rise in
exports in February compared with a year before, imports plunged
16.6 percent after a 15.5 percent drop in January, showing the
weakness of domestic demand and the reluctance of industry to invest
in capital goods because of the crisis.
(Additional reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre;
writing by Alan Raybould)
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