OFFICIALS at Don Mueang Airport this evening (Sep. 4) allowed de facto Pheu Thai boss to fly to Singapore for a two-day health checkup after holding him back to rigorously check whether he is allowed to travel overseas, Amarin TV said.
It was initially rumoured that Thaksin wanted to fly to Hua Hin on a private MJets aircraft but it was later clarified that he wished to fly to Singapore at 6 p.m. There were to be three passengers on this flight but at 4 p.m. he arrived at the airport and asked to add one more passenger.
Immigration and Airports Authority officials conducted a thorough review of Thaksin’s documents due to potential legal issues.
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.
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