By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra was today (Sep.9) ordered by court to be sent back to jail for a one-year time after he had quietly staged a six-month-long escapade at Police Hospital in spite of the law.
The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions delivered the verdict to the extent that Thaksin be immediately returned to Bangkok Remand prison to serve the curtailed, one-year sentence which had been earlier practically ignored by senior officials of the Corrections Department and others concerned.
The judges ruled his transfer reported in the middle of the night barely a day after he had returned from self-exile abroad a couple of years ago from a hospital in the premises of Bangkok Remand prison to a premium ward at Police Hospital as an illicit act on the part of those government officials, thus rendering today’s return of the then-convict at large to the prison.
Thaksin, father of the court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra who accompanied him to the court alongside her sister Pintongta Kunakornwong, had allegedly conspired with those officials to take legal loopholes to avoid being literally put behind bars and to preferably, yet illegally stay at Police Hospital.
Today’s verdict handed out by the Supreme Court judges apparently capped the two-years-long episode of the de facto Pheu Thai boss’s scandalous fakeout allegedly staged throughout his six-month time at Police Hospital by evidently feigning to be a “critically ill” patient until he was released on parole early last year.
The globetrotting Thaksin had been indicted in absentia on charges of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades and sentenced to eight years in jail which had been curtailed under a royal decree to only one year.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra arriving at Supreme Court with his daughters former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Pintongta Kunakornwong. Top photo: Amarin TV, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
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