By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE SUPREME COURT will be formally asked to pass a retroactive ruling to return de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra to prison after he had practically failed to serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail term last year.
Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak will shortly petition Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against politicians to consider delivering such retroactive verdict against the billionaire power player/father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra after he had allegedly manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars for a single day to otherwise serve his one-year jail sentence, albeit already given the special leniency under royal pardon to curtail it from eight years to only one year.
Royal pardon had been granted upon his homecoming last year after a 17-year self-exile abroad and a long-delayed acceptance of his original court verdict and jail sentence delivered on grounds of his having perpetrated power abuses during his previous premiership.
The phenomenon in which the de facto Pheu Thai boss had manipulated to keep himself from prison and be granted the contentious privileges of staying in a private ward at Police Hospital for a six-month period until he was released on parole earlier this year was evidently, categorically against the law, according to the petitioner.
Regardless of whether the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large may have fallen “critically ill” as earlier claimed by certain officials, the Corrections Department could not have legally transferred him from Bangkok Remand prison to Police Hospital without prior permission from the Criminal Court, according to the petitioner.
If judged as guilty by the Supreme Court, the de facto Pheu Thai boss could possibly be returned to jail where he would be literally put behind bars for a one-year period whilst Corrections Department Director-General Sahakarn Petchnarin could possibly be indicted by court for misconduct charges.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
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