By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has quietly resolved to use legal loopholes and apply his thinly veiled, personal power by which his fugitive sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra could probably return home without being subsequently thrown in jail, a partisan source confirmed today (Dec. 4).
The billionaire power player/father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra who has publicly reassured Yingluck would probably come back after seven years in self-exile abroad has been quietly mapping out ways and means to help with his sister’s desperate homecoming plan some time ahead of Songkran festival where she herself could join water-splashing revellers in her northern home province of Chiang Mai next April.
Legal loopholes which the de facto Pheu Thai boss would likely manipulate to use in favour of his fugitive sister refer to the Corrections Department’s contentious regulations provided for “detention” of convicts outside of a prison as had been the case of his own, according to the partisan source who only spoke on condition of anonymity.
Though Yingluck will not be legally deemed too old at age 57 to be literally put behind bars like her 75-year-old brother who had allegedly staged a fake-out to be contentiously entitled to a six-month privileged stay at Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand prison last year, she would probably follow suit to the extent that she be kept from being literally imprisoned anywhere, given those legal loopholes to exploit, plus her brother’s power-bargaining, behind-the-scenes shenanigans.
Though Paetongtarn has categorically denied a recent release on parole of former Pheu Thai commerce minister-turned-convict Boonsong Teriyabhirom who had spent seven years in prison alongside his former Pheu Thai deputy commerce minister-turned-convict Poom Sarapol due to misconduct charges pertaining to a corruption-prone rice subsidy scheme earlier run by a previous Pheu Thai government could probably more or less justify her planned homecoming, according to the partisan source.
The quietly-sustained attempt to help Thaksin’s sister who had been earlier found guilty of duty negligence charges and sentenced by court to a five-year jail might probably come up with an excuse, albeit in post-trial fashion, that she had earlier flashed an official warning to the Ministry of Commerce, albeit to no avail, over enormous, potential damage in a quantitative sell-off of government-stored rice, thus purportedly manifesting her having not neglected her prime-ministerial duty as charged.
“One thing about Yingluck’s planned homecoming is for sure that she will be by no means put behind bars upon return. But if a fearful scenario of imprisonment is eventually believed by the de facto Pheu Thai boss to occur to his sister even for a single day, she will certainly not come back no matter when,” the source said.
Upon last year’s return from 17 years in self-exile abroad, the de facto Pheu Thai boss had waged legal battles in which he may have blatantly flouted and abased judicial infrastructures of the country’s executive and judicial branches to the extent that he successfully, yet-contentiously manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars for a single day to otherwise serve his curtailed, one-year jail sentence on power abuse charges perpetrated during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades.
Whilst staying as a “critically-ill” patient in a private ward at Police Hospital, the billionaire power player-cum-convict at large who has been charged with a lese majeste lawsuit for which a court hearing is scheduled to be held next July had allegedly orchestrated last year’s post-election setup of a Pheu Thai-led government, beginning with the dumping of the court-dissolved Move Forward, allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners, allocation of cabinet seats among Pheu Thai MPs and other partisan figures and naming of former real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin for prime minister for a one-year rule. After his release on parole last February, the de facto Pheu Thai boss has practically continued to pull the strings behind his daughter-turned-prime minister, albeit in hush-hush fashion.
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