By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra today (May 27) showed up in public to refute rumours of his fleeing the country ahead of next month’s court trial under which he is legally obliged to testify among others.
Approached by reporters at the headquarters of the Office of the Narcotic Control Board, the father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra tersely denied he had gone anywhere and that he would try to escape from multiple legal battles at the age of 75.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss who had launched an all-out war against transnational drug traffickers and associated criminals during his previous premiership over a couple of decades earlier today delivered a keynote speech on the issue at the ONCB headquarters in Bangkok.
The mega-billionaire, power player is scheduled for June 13 to testify before the Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions during the court trial on basis of allegations that he had staged a fake-out at Police Hospital feigning as a “critically ill” patient without truthfully being so only to avoid being literally put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence upon his returning home from self-exile overseas in 2023.
The Medical Council of Thailand had earlier determined that Thaksin had not clinically been so “critically ill” as previously claimed and punished a few doctors for evidently compromising their profession to unduly cover him up.
Certain executive officials of Bangkok Remand prison, the Department of Corrections and Police Hospital could possibly be found guilty of taking legal loopholes and illicit leeways to keep the mega-billionaire, power player above the law, granting him double-standard privileges, and be consequently punished by law in relation to his six-month-long, thinly-veiled fake-out saga.
In addition, the prime minister’s father is scheduled to attend a Criminal Court trial in early July on a lese majeste lawsuit filed against him after he had mentioned the monarchy for alleged involvement in the 2006 coup which had deposed him from power during an interview with a news agency in South Korea in 2015.
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Top: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra giving a speech and Office of the Narcotic Control Board. Photo: Thai Rath
Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra flanked by Deputy Prime Minister/Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, right and Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, left. Photo: Amarin TV
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