By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE SUPREME COURT has again waived a repeated lawsuit against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a former convict at large as well as the Corrections Department on charges of otherwise deliberately breaking the law.
The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions today (Apr. 30) resolved to lift the sensational case lodged by a former lawmaker against the billionaire, power-playing Thaksin who had been evidently spared a one-year term at Bangkok Remand prison by the Corrections Department citing leniency-inducing regulations of the agency under care of the Ministry of Justice.
According to Charnchai Israsenarak who had filed the lawsuit for a third time against Thaksin since 2023, the Corrections Department had allegedly perpetrated a contempt of court by bringing him out of the prison to Police Hospital without prior permission from court, following an eight-year jail sentence which had been curtailed to only one year under royal pardon delivered to the de facto Pheu Thai boss due to power abuse charges committed during his previous premiership a couple of decades ago.
Nevertheless, the Supreme Court judges invariably ruled that the post-conviction, legal enforcement by the Corrections Department is entirely beyond the power of the court of law.
Given the waiver of the lawsuit, no court hearing on the highly arguable case will be subsequently conducted with both the de facto Pheu Thai boss and relevant Corrections Department officials being completely exonerated of such charges.
Department officials had allegedly taken legal loopholes to grant “critically ill” Thaksin the contentious privileges of staying in a VIP ward of Police Hospital for a six-month period until he was released on parole early last year amidst widespread suspicions that he had merely staged a fake-out to keep himself from being literally put behind bars for a single day.
In another development, hearings in the Criminal Court will begin in the upcoming July on a separate lawsuit pertaining to lese majeste charges earlier filed against the billionaire power player who had accused the monarchy of involvement in the 2006 coup which ousted him as elected prime minister during an interview in 2015 with a news agency in South Korea.
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