By Max Constant and CS Thana

BANGKOK

Thai police investigators have sent military prosecutors an 8,000-page file indicting two suspects for the Aug. 17 Bangkok bombing, closing an investigation which has been criticized as inconsistent, puzzling and uncommunicative.

Deputy Police Chief Gen. Sriwara Rangsipramanakul confirmed to Anadolu Agency on Wednesday that investigators were confident that the evidence was strong enough to warrant an indictment for premeditated murder and bomb-making.

He underlined that the file asserts that the motive for the blast involved people smuggling, and is not linked to nationalism by Uighur -- a Turkic ethnic group, to which both arrested suspects belong.