By Thai Newsroom Reporters
IN WHAT WAS SEEN as bureaucratic red tape, the Constitutional Court today (Oct. 22) demanded that the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) take action in the wake of a lawsuit earlier filed against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and the largest ruling party and forward it over to court.
The Constitutional Court advised that the OAG gather witnesses and evidence pertaining to the relevant allegations and forward them to the court within a 15-day time from today.
An activist lawyer, namely Thirayut Suwankesorn, had lodged the lawsuit against the billionaire power player and Pheu Thai to the OAG last month but no progress had been made on the part of the agency during a 15-day period, thus prompting him to directly submit it to the Constitutional Court earlier this month.
It remains to be seen whether the Constitutional Court will formally accept the anti-Thaksin lawsuit after it has been forwarded from the OAG in the next 15 days, however.
According to the activist lawyer, Thaksin had illicitly dominated, masterminded and steered the Pheu Thai rank and file led by his daughter-turned-prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra whilst the whole party had unduly bowed to his influence, albeit exerted behind the scenes.
According to Thirayut’s lawsuit, the de facto Pheu Thai boss had hosted a hush-hush meeting of leading figures of all coalition partners at his Chan Song Lah house hours after former prime minister Srettha Thavisin had been deposed of power by the Constitutional Court in effort to urgently find a replacement for him last August.
The former prime minister had allegedly manipulated an ouster of the Palang Pracharath led by former deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan from the Pheu Thai-led coalition government.
Thaksin had allegedly managed to have visions which he had publicly expressed turned into government policies formally delivered to parliament.
Thaksin had allegedly pressed the Pheu Thai-led government to look to streamline a profit-sharing, underseas natural gas and resources development scheme around Koh Koot islands off Trat between Thailand and Cambodia since former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen became the first guest to visit the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole at his house earlier this year.
Given a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail sentence due to his having been earlier indicted by court for power abuse charges, Thaksin had allegedly manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison and have the Ministry of Justice, the Corrections Department and Police Hospital unduly grant him the six-month privilege of staying at the hospital where he had allegedly staged a fake-out as a “critically ill” patient.
If finally found guilty by court as charged, the de facto Pheu Thai boss who had earlier dared all his critics to lodge any lawsuits against him in court could possibly be sentenced to a jail term whilst the Pheu Thai could possibly be dissolved with the party leader Paetongtarn and all other members of the party’s executive board being automatically prohibited from assuming political positions at any levels for a number of years.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Top photo: Naewna, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
Insert: Lawyer Thirayut Suwankesorn. Photo: Thai Rath
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