 ISOC was implicated in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.After Thaksin was deposed in a military coup, the junta transformed the ISOC into a "government within a government", giving it wide-reaching authority over the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Department of Special Investigation, and the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO).The junta also authorized it to help provincial authorities in marketing OTOP products.