By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra might probably manage to escape from jail again if he is freshly charged with alleged premeditated fake-out during a six-month period at Police Hospital, according to a partisan source.
Upon last year’s homecoming from self-exile abroad, the father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra had allegedly feigned “critical illnesses” which had contentiously landed him the double-standard privileges at Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand prison until he was released on parole earlier this year.
In 2008, Thaksin who had faced power abuse charges in court had managed to escape under an excuse of going to see Olympic Games in Beijing and had turned himself into a globetrotter in self-exile since.
For fear of being arrested and thrown in prison on charges of committing perjury with the alleged fake-out at Police Hospital, the billionaire power player might probably look for ways and means to escape again, according to the partisan source who only spoke on condition of anonymity.
Former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen was the first guest who visited his former Thai counterpart at the latter’s Chan Song Lah residence shortly after he had been released from Police Hospital.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss might probably follow in the footsteps of his sister/fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra who fled to Cambodia and then flew to another foreign destination after she had been deposed in the 2014 coup.
Thaksin who has questionably kept a low profile since the last few weeks could possibly sooner or later be charged with deliberate perjury after last year’s royal pardon curtailing his eight-year jail sentence to only one year.
Yet, the de facto Pheu Thai boss had never literally spent a single day behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison but been granted the undue privileges at Police Hospital deemed inaccessible to other convicts, according to the National Human Rights Commission’s report earlier submitted to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Former police chief/Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Temiyavej would likely attest during a testimony before the anti-graft agency to Thaksin’s fake-out allegedly perpetrated in a private ward at the hospital where he had personally visited him twice.
Those who could possibly be held accountable for Thaksin’s alleged fake-out would include high-ranking government officials ranging from Justice Minister/Prachachart leader Thavi Sodsong to Corrections Department chief Sahakarn Petchnarin and Police Hospital’s senior executive officials, among others.
Nevertheless, the de facto Pheu Thai boss is scheduled for next June to appear in court in a delayed case involving the draconian lese majeste law, also known as Section 112 of the Criminal Code, after he had allegedly mentioned the monarchy in relation to the 2006 coup which ousted him from power during a press interview in Seoul in 2015.
The billionaire power player had categorically denied the lese majeste allegations, saying he had been merely framed by his political opponents including those closely connected with current partners of his daughter’s Pheu Thai-led coalition government.
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