Power-abusing lawsuit against Yingluck lifted

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

THE SUPREME COURT today (Dec.26) lifted a power-abusing lawsuit filed against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra pertaining to a contentious transfer of the head of the National Security Council over a decade earlier.

The Supreme Court judges in charge of lawsuits against politicians ruled in favour of the deposed prime minister who had transferred Thawin Pleansri from the post of NSC secretary-general to that of an adviser to the prime minister in 2011.

The Office of the Attorney-General had filed the power-abusing case which was finally waived by court, given no proven grounds for the alleged wrongdoings on the part of the deposed prime minister.

Yingluck who had allegedly pushed for the naming of the Pheu Thai-backed Srettha Thavisin as prime minister following last May’s election has been residing in self-exile abroad following the 2014 coup orchestrated by army chief-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

She is a younger sister of de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra who returned from 17 years of self-exile abroad in August and has been staying at Police Hospital for secrecy-shrouded “illnesses” since.

Thaksin has been earlier convicted by court of a few counts of misconduct perpetrated during his previous premiership and originally sentenced in absentia to an eight-year jail term which was curtailed by royal pardon to only one year.

Given legal loopholes and alleged privileges, the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large would likely be transferred from the hospital to some living quarters in “house arrest” fashion before he is released on parole around the upcoming February.

Srettha, known as personally associated with Yingluck, has remained tightlipped amidst allegations that he might probably look for ways and means to help her follow suit of her brother’s homecoming style.

She has been earlier convicted by court of misconduct pertaining to a previous Pheu Thai-led government’s rice subsidy scandals and sentenced in absentia to five years in jail.

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