By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A POLITICAL ACTIVIST group today (Sep.12) called on the Department of Corrections to never upgrade the convicted criminal status for de facto Pheu Thai boss-turned-inmate Thaksin Shinawatra which could otherwise provide him leniency to the extent that he be literally “detained” outside of a prison sooner or later.
The People’s Alliance for Reform in Thailand led by political activist Pichit Chaimongkol submitted their petition to the Department of Corrections, a government agency under care of the Ministry of Justice, insisting that the inmate status of the mega-billionaire power player who is currently serving a curtailed, one-year jail term at Klong Prem central prison be not upgraded from “medium” to ”good” but downgraded to “bad” so that he could not be subject to such leniency at any given time.
The activist group maintained that Thaksin should be categorically denied any undue privileges as had been the case over the last two years upon his return from self-exile abroad and that his inmate status should be downgraded, given the fact that he had already escaped the jail sentence to which he would have been originally obliged over the last couple of decades after he had been judged guilty of perpetrating a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership.
The latest anti-Thaksin move apparently followed speculation that the de facto Pheu Thai boss, father of the court-deposed prime minister/Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra, would probably be either granted “detention” outside of the prison or released on parole in the next four to six months, given an upgraded status and his old age. The “detention” of the inmate might probably be carried out in the style of a “house arrest” with an EM bracelet on his ankle.
The Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions on Tuesday handed out an historic order for the notorious power player to be sent back to jail for one year to serve the earlier unobserved jail term after he had evidently conspired with senior government officials of the Department of Corrections, Bangkok Remand prison and Police Hospital to stage a six-month-long fakeout at the hospital with primary intent to literally avoid being put behind bars until he was released on parole early last year.
He had been earlier sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail which had been eventually curtailed under a royal decree to only one year.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Both photos: Amarin TV
Insert: Political activist Pichit Chaimongkol. Photo: Naewna
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