By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission was suggested today (Nov 4) to directly ask Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for information pertaining to her father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s medical treatment at Police Hospital.
Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Temiyavej advised the NACC to officially call on the prime minister to provide facts and figures about her father’s medical treatment at Police Hospital since the anti-graft agency has not yet been given the sought-after information from the hospital’s executive officials.
Paetongtarn has today remained tightlipped when asked by reporters to comment on the NACC’s desperate search for such information about her father who faces multiple lawsuits for allegedly domineering and steering the rank and file of the largest ruling party headed by his daughter prime minister.
Seripisut said the NACC may as well try to obtain it from Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, given his official roles in charge of military and police affairs.
Phumtham is largely seen as a right-hand man for Thaksin who had been invariably alleged of staging a fake-out by feigning to be a “critically ill” patient contentiously granted a six-month, privileged stay at the hospital in lieu of a prison to otherwise serve his curtailed, one-year jail sentence for previous power abuse charges upon his homecoming from self-exile abroad last year.
Meanwhile, Seripisut said he will definitely not testify before the House Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & National Reform about Thaksin’s alleged “fake-out” episode as earlier requested on the upcoming Thursday because, he said, “factual, significant secrets” behind it could otherwise be leaked to some of the panellists who were currently Pheu Thai MPs under command of the de facto party boss.
The former police chief who had already testified before an NACC investigating committee about the issue had paid personal visits to Thaksin at the hospital twice before the de facto Pheu Thai boss was released on parole earlier this year.
Seripisut had personally known Thaksin for a long time since both graduated from the Police Academy and became fellow police officers, albeit in different ranks.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Temiyavej. Photo: MNG Online
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