By Thai Newsroom Reporters
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CORRECTIONS Department and Police Hospital are scheduled on the upcoming Thursday to testify before the House Committee on Police Affairs over the extended stay of the “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra at the hospital.
House Committee on Police Affairs vice chair/Move Forward MP Nattapong Sumanotham confirmed today (Dec.11) that representatives of the Corrections Department and Police Hospital are obliged to give truthful testimony before the House panel about the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large who has been staying at the hospital for nearly four months now without schedule for dispatchment and return to Bangkok Remand Prison.
At issue for the House Committee on Police Affairs to deliberate is whether the country’s judicial and correctional procedures and legal loopholes may have been compromised only to grant special privileges for Thaksin who has been alleged of feigning “illnesses” the details and symptoms of which remain in secrecy and manipulating to keep himself from being literally put behind bars since he returned from self-exile abroad on Aug.22, according to the House panel’s vice chair.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss had been earlier convicted in absentia of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership and sentenced to eight years in prison which was already curtailed by royal pardon to only one year with the probability of his being released on parole as soon as between later this month and the upcoming February.
Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong has earlier said whether the deposed prime minister could stay beyond a 120-day period due on Dec.22 outside of the prison will ultimately depend on Corrections Department director-general Sahakarn Petnarin to decide.
Thavi said he himself is not legally empowered to do so otherwise he could be charged of unduly interfering in the business of the department chief.
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Top and Front Page: File photos of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Top photo: BBC, Front Page photo: INN News
Insert: House Committee on Police Affairs vice chair/Move Forward MP Nattapong Sumanotham campaigning earlier this year. Photo: Matichon
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