By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to be given further privileges even after he has been released on parole later this month, according to a former lawmaker.
Ex-Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong today (Feb.8) posted on his Facebook page to say the authorities might probably allegedly look to sustain double-standard favours for the de facto Pheu Thai boss to the extent that no ankle bracelet be attached as otherwise enforced upon others on parole.
Thepthai was apparently referring to government officials dutifully taking care of the “sickly, untouchable” convict, ranging from those of the Corrections Department and Police Hospital to the Probation Department.
The billionaire, politically powerful Thaksin, speculated to be released on parole as soon as Feb.18, would likely return to his Chan Song Lah residence without an ankle bracelet since he has been virtually treated as an “angel convict” by the authorities so far, Thepthai said.
According to the ex-MP who himself is literally wearing an ankle bracelet on parole following his two-year jail sentence for electoral rigging charges, it remains to be seen whether the Probation Department will literally put an ankle bracelet on the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole like others.
Thepthai called on the agency to immediately remove his ankle bracelet if Thaksin will ever do without one.
The deposed prime minister has been invariably accused of flouting the country’s judicial process, promoting double standards and enjoying undue privileges unprovided for other convicts after he had returned from self-exile abroad last August and been provided a tight-security private ward at Police Hospital to undergo medical care for undisclosed “illnesses” since.
He has never spent a single day behind bars at Bangkok Remand Prison and is largely speculated to be released on parole after spending roughly half of his curtailed, one-year jail sentence at the hospital.
Justice Minister Thawee Sodsong has recently commented that Thaksin’s prolonged stay at the hospital has been officially calculated as a period during which he has served his jail term, albeit outside of the prison.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, left in above photo and right in Front Page photo, and ex-Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong. Both photos: Thai Rath
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