Corrections Dept told to not handle a house arrest for Thaksin

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

THE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT has been advised to never manage a house arrest for de facto Pheu Thai boss/convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra so that he could otherwise literally stay at home in lieu of a prison.

Former Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong today (Dec.2) posted on his Facebook page to express his dissent over unconfirmed hearsay that the Corrections Department might probably manage a house arrest for the deposed prime minister who has been admitted at Police Hospital for unspecified “illnesses” for over 100 days now so that he may literally return home to stay in a foreseeable future.

Nevertheless, the “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss/convict at large is more or less speculated to be released on parole around February after his eight-year jail sentence has been already curtailed by royal pardon to only one year.

Thepthai said Thaksin might probably be released on parole after he has served either a minimum of one-third or a minimum of two-thirds of his one-year jail, provided on leniency basis.

The former lawmaker who has already spent 16 months behind bars due to an electoral rigging lawsuit said the integrity and prestige of the Corrections Department might probably be ruined and the country’s judicial systems be undermined if the agency was desperately looking for legal loopholes through which the “highly-privileged” convict could practically remain at large.

The ex-MP’s comments were apparently made in a follow-on to those earlier made by political activist Srisuwan Janya who plans to petition the Administrative Court to judge whether the de facto Pheu Thai boss/convict at large is clinically or “politically” ill since the last few months at Police Hospital.

The Administrative Court could subpoena Corrections Department and Police Hospital officials in charge of Thaksin’s case for testimony with the likelihood of a disclosure of details and symptoms of his “illnesses” which have been shrouded in secrecy since, according to the activist.

The deposed prime minister has never spent a single day behind bars at Bangkok Remand Prison since he was rushed to Police Hospital in the middle of the night on Aug.22, the date on which he returned from 17 years in self-exile abroad and real estate mogul-turned-prime ministerial candidate Srettha Thavisin was named head of a Pheu Thai-led government.

He had been earlier convicted as guilty by court for a few counts of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership.

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Top: Former Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong, left, and de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, right. Photo: Thai Rath

Front Page: Former MP Thepthai Senapong. Photo: Matichon

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