By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has informally confirmed that he is definitely coming back to Bangkok on the upcoming Monday after he had unexpectedly departed for Dubai on Thursday.
Thaksin, father of former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, posted on his X page to say he is certainly returning to the Thai capital on the upcoming Monday whilst he is scheduled for the upcoming Tuesday to attend a court verdict on an unprecedented lawsuit filed against him on grounds of his contentious fake-out in which he had allegedly feigned as a “critically ill patient” at Police Hospital to avoid being literally put behind bars since he had returned from self-exile overseas in 2023.
The mega-billionaire power player who flew his private jet from Don Mueang airport with a declared flight plan to visit Singapore under an excuse of medical reasons but eventually wound up in Dubai apparently made his comment online to dampen speculation that he might probably not come back to Thailand anytime soon following fiascos on the part of the court-deposed prime minister and Friday’s Pheu Thai failure to stay in power by naming Chaikasem Nitisiri for prime minister to no avail and in the wake of a Supreme Court verdict scheduled for the upcoming Tuesday on a lawsuit pertaining to his Police Hospital escapade.
Some government critics concluded that Thaksin might never return to Thailand anymore after he had spent two years in his home country performing as Mr. Fix-It whose surreptitious political schemes have finally fallen through now that Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul has been voted prime minister by an overwhelming majority of MPs, defeating the Pheu Thai-attached Chaikasem.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions will deliver a ruling on Thaksin’s Police Hospital escapade case no matter if the verdict may be read out in the presence of the de facto Pheu Thai boss or in his absentia on the upcoming Tuesday.
The power player had allegedly taken legal loopholes and conspired with certain high-ranking government officials including doctors at Bangkok Remand hospital and Police Hospital for the convict at large to not be imprisoned for a single day to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence but to be unduly granted double-standard privileges of staying for the six-month period in a premium ward of Police Hospital under pretext of a “critically-ill patient” until he was released on parole early last year whilst the Medical Council of Thailand officially ruled that he had not been as clinically ailing as claimed.
It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court judges might probably rule to the extent that he be literally sent back to jail to serve his one-year term or to be strapped with an EM on his ankle and be detained in style of a “house arrest” somewhere outside of the prison.
Thaksin had fled the country and stayed in self-exile abroad, mostly in Dubai, after he had been convicted in absentia for perpetrating a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades and sentenced to eight years in jail.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s flight to Dubai. Top photo: Naewna, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
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