By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra is facing a critical dilemma with her elected power at stake amidst legal battles directed against her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, a partisan source said yesterday (Sep. 18).
A latest petition aimed at holding the billionaire power player Thaksin guilty of deliberately committing perjury over his alleged fake-out as a “critically-ill” convict at Police Hospital has been directly addressed to the woman prime minister pressing for a prompt, transparent disclosure of evidence pertaining to factual phenomena and events which may have occurred in a private ward of the hospital where her father had been granted privileges inaccessible to other convicts for a six-month period.
Given the petition to help dig up the mysteries surrounding her father, Paetongtarn is currently bound to see to it that the relevant authorities deliver the sought-after evidence to the National Anti-Corruption Commission in due course, amidst the probability that the disclosure of evidence could put her father in jail on perjury charges.
But if Paetongtarn refused to take action as legally obliged, she could possibly face duty-negligence charges, thus given the likelihood of being impeached by law and deposed of premiership, the partisan source said.
All CCTV footages and other pieces of evidence sought by the NACC and yet denied by Police Hospital and the Corrections Department are believed to show private activities of the woman prime minister’s father at the hospital since last year until he was released on parole earlier this year to substantiate official reports that he had had “critical illnesses”, the symptoms of which have been shrouded in secrecy.
Thaksin who had been judged guilty of a few counts of power abuse and misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership and sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail which was curtailed by royal pardon to one year had never literally spent a single day behind bars, given his alleged fake-out as a “critically-ill” convict who had claimed to deserve “detention” outside of a prison.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss could possibly be arrested on perjury charges and thrown in jail if his alleged fake-out was proven in court to have taken place at the hospital as accused.
Paetongtarn is apparently encountering the same dilemma as her aunt/fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra had over a decade ago pertaining to a corruption-riddled rice subsidy project run by a previous Pheu Thai government.
Yingluck had been sentenced by court to five years in jail on duty-negligence charges due to failure to take action to investigate, correct or terminate the populist project implemented at the expense of the taxpayers’ money.
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Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra with her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, above, and by herself, Front Page. Top photo: MNG Online, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
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