AFTER being cleared to fly to Singapore for a two-day health checkup this evening (Sep. 4) de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s private jet was tracked and seen deviating from its course and flying from Andaman Sea to Bay of Bengal amid speculation that he could be heading for Dubai, Naewna newspaper said.
After the Criminal Court lifted a lese majeste case against him on Aug. 22 he got his passport back and is allowed to travel overseas.
However, Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions are scheduled for Sep.9 to deliver a verdict on a sensational case based on charges that Thaksin had merely feigned as a “critically ill” convict without literally being so in order to be granted the privilege of staying for a six-month period in a premium ward of Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand prison’s hospital upon his homecoming from self-exile overseas in 2023.
Thaksin had been earlier convicted in absentia to eight years in jail on power abuse charges perpetrated during his previous premiership a couple of decades ago with the sentence having been commuted to only one year under royal pardon.
At 8.45 p.m. Flightrader24 app indicated that the Bombardier Global 7500 flight T7GTS, carrying former prime minister Thaksin and possibly members of his family, deviated from the flight route to Singapore and it was unclear whether the destination had been changed.
At 9:56 p.m., Army Military Force Facebook page said Thaksin’s private jet had passed the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean at a speed of 553 knots and was flying over the Bay of Bengal possibly heading for Dubai.
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Flight path of De facto Pheu Thai boss Thakin Shinawatra’s private jet. Image shared by Army Military Force Facebook page
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