By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FRESH INVESTIGATION WAS today (Feb, 21) proposed into alleged intransparency of certain government officials in charge of the “critically ill” de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra.
Former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn posted on his Facebook page today to call for an impartial, truthful investigation by a House committee or any other independent agency into alleged contentious, intransparent conduct of government officials ranging from those of the Corrections Department and Police Hospital to Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong for their handling of the “critically ill” Thaksin over the last six months.
The former commissioner’s call for the fact-finding probe into the “critical illnesses” of the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole closely followed yesterday’s press conference given by Pheu Thai spokesperson Danuporn Punnakunt who quoted Thaksin’s daughter/party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra as saying her father has been putting on soft splints around his neck and right arm due to degenerative bones and damaged tendons and that he is to undergo an operation on his neck at a yet unscheduled date.
According to the Pheu Thai spokesperson, the de facto party boss had decided to indefinitely put off his operation and preferred to leave the hospital for his home upon being granted parole on Sunday.
Somchai cast doubt that the extent of Thaksin’s “critical illnesses” described by the Pheu Thai spokesperson adequately justified his six-month medical treatment in a tight-security, private ward at Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand Prison where he had been originally destined to otherwise serve his curtailed, one-year jail sentence for convicted counts of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership.
Police Hospital doctors have remained tightlipped over the symptoms and clinical details of the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole’s “critical illnesses”, citing the privacy of the patient who apparently preferred to keep it a secret from the public.
Nevertheless, the former commissioner has found Danuporn’s statements largely contentious, thus calling for an unbiased probe into the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole’s “critical illnesses” repeatedly claimed by his party’s rank and file and others to deserve the “highly privileged” medical care at Police Hospital.
Apart from the court verdict earlier delivered for his misconduct charges, Thaksin is currently accused by police and public prosecutors of violating the lese majeste law, also known as Section 112 of the Criminal Code, by making verbal statements allegedly tantamount to lese majeste content during an interview with a news agency in South Korea in 2015 to mark the first anniversary of the coup staged by army chief-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to depose his sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
The Office of the Attorney-General is scheduled on April 10 to either proceed with the lese majeste lawsuit against him or simply drop it or probably even delay it longer.
In the meantime, the OAG has preferred the police investigate further and find more evidence pertaining to the alleged lese majeste conduct perpetrated outside of the country by the “highly privileged” Thaksin who has earlier filed a petition in pursuit of justice.
CAPTIONS:
Top: Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong, left, and de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right. Photo: Matichon
Insert: Former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn. Photo: Thai Rath
Front Page: File photo of Thaksin Shinawatra. Credit Thai Rath
Also read: Paetongtarn invited by Hun Sen to visit Cambodia
Thaksin has degenerative bones in the neck: Pheu Thai spokesperson
Hun Sen set to visit Thaksin at home tomorrow
Thaksin virtually held hostage with lese majeste lawsuit: NIDA academic
OAG not deciding on lese majeste case against Thaksin till April 10
Srettha remains non-committal over possible meeting with Thaksin
SDGs will fail to meet 2030 target, but travel & tourism can still be a big help
Droves of young Myanmar men and women fleeing military service to Thailand
Yulia Navalnaya, Russia’s steely new opposition politician out to avenge husband’s death
Over 20,000 contraband fresh eggs seized at Thai-Cambodia border
One Reply to “Probe proposed into Thaksin’s ‘critical illnesses’”