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BANGKOK, Saturday (AFP) A senior Phuket provincial offcial has been arrested and charged with stealing 50,000 dollars in government money meant to help victims of December's tsunami, Thai police said Saturday.

Apichart Nooplod, 53, the deputy finance chief for Phuket province, was arrested late Friday after a court issued a warrant.

Apichart denied the charges and was released on bail after preliminary interrogation, police said.

"We have firm witnesses and evidence to support our request for an arrest warrant, and he was the lone suspect in this case," Colonel Paween Pongsirin, superintendent of Phuket's Muang district police station, told AFP.

The money went missing from a safety deposit box whose lock had been sawn off at Phuket's provincial hall a few days after the December 26 tsunami that killed nearly 5,400 people in Thailand.

Thailand did not accept any international aid for tsunami relief.

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