By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has reconfirmed that his sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra would return home from self-exile abroad by next April.
During a recent interview with Nikkei Asia in Thailand, the de facto Pheu Thai boss said the fugitive former prime minister who has been earlier sentenced in absentia to five years in prison on duty-negligence and misconduct charges would come home from self-exile overseas ahead of Songkran season.
The billionaire power player expressed confidence that the former woman prime minister deposed in the 2014 coup would return home just before the water-splashing festival is held nationwide in April.
“I don’t think there will be anything to stop her from returning home just before Songkran, given the opportunity that may arise then,” Thaksin told the Japanese news agency in reference to Yingluck.
The billionaire power player has been undoubtedly looking for ways and means to not only bring his sister back home safely but be subsequently spared the jail sentence as had been his own case last year.
Thaksin who had returned home safely last year after 17 years in self-exile overseas had not spent a single day behind bars to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence, saying he had unfairly fallen prey to multiple legal battles including an “ultimately groundless” lese majeste lawsuit earlier lodged against him in court.
Thaksin said he will finally survive the lese majeste case in court where he is scheduled to appear in defence of himself next July.
During an interview with a news agency in Seoul in 2015, the de facto Pheu Thai boss mentioned the monarchy in relation to the 2006 coup which ousted him from power.
Multiple lawsuits have already been filed against the de facto Pheu Thai boss on grounds of staging a fake-out as a “critically ill” patient at Police Hospital where he had been privileged to stay for a six-month period in lieu of a prison as well as domineering and steering the largest ruling party headed by his daughter/prime minister, among other alleged wrongdoings.
If found guilty as charged in the Constitutional Court, the billionaire power player could possibly be sentenced to jail whilst his daughter/prime minister could possibly be deposed of power, the Pheu Thai be immediately dissolved and all the party’s executive members be banned from assuming political positions at any levels for a number of years.
Meanwhile, he said his daughter-turned-Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has ultimately resolved to see to it that she will not encounter what her predecessor Srettha Thavisin had faced which deprived him of elected premiership on power abuse charges last August.
The former real estate mogul-turned-prime minister had contentiously named Pichit Chuenban, who had been previously hired as a lawyer by the de facto Pheu Thai boss and convicted for a court contempt charge, a minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Top and Front Page: Former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
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