By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra was yesterday (Sep. 7) suspected of looking to have any evidence pertaining to her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s fake-out allegedly earlier staged at Police Hospital completely destroyed.
Pichit Chaimongkol, leader of the Students & People Network for Thailand Reform, charged that the woman prime minister could quietly manage to have all pieces of evidence such as CCTV footages at Police Hospital secretly and completely disposed of or destroyed to cover up her father’s alleged fake-out with his having been reported by the authorities as a “critically ill patient” for a six-month period until he was released on parole earlier this year.
The billionaire power player Thaksin has been invariably accused of feigning his “critical illnesses”, the symptoms of which had been shrouded in secrecy, only to keep himself from being literally put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison to otherwise serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail sentence on a few counts of power abuse and misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership.
The anti-Thaksin activist made his comment amidst news reports that the National Anti-Corruption Commission is currently collecting pieces of evidence including CCTV footages to substantiate allegations that the prime minister’s father had staged the fake-out since he was transferred from a hospital in the premises of Bangkok Remand prison to Police Hospital barely a day after his return from self-exile abroad last year.
In the meantime, the Khana Nitichon Cherdchutham activist group has separately filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court via the Election Commission against Paetongtarn on grounds of severely violating the wide-ranging code of political ethics and constitution by having named an allegedly “dishonest, unethical” Thavi Sodsong for justice minister in the latest Pheu Thai-led cabinet lineup.
Thavi had been accused by the legal activist group of having abused his power to have unlawful double standards applied in the highly contentious case of the billionaire power player to the extent that he had been “detained outside of a prison” under the pretext of “critical illnesses” – the privilege which would have been ultimately denied to other convicts.
If finally found guilty as charged, the woman prime minister could possibly be immediately deposed of power by the Constitutional Court alongside the justice minister who concurrently perform as Pheu Thai leader and Prachachart leader respectively.
Not only the justice minister but the chiefs of the Corrections Department, Bangkok Remand prison and Police Hospital could possibly be punished by law if found by court to have been involved in the covering-up of the de facto Pheu Thai boss’s alleged fake-out.
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Top and Front Page: A composite image of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra next to the sign of the Police Hospital’s 14th floor ward where he stayed for six months.
Insert: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Both photos: Thai Rath
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