By Thai Newsroom Reporters
AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT of the Office of the Attorney-General on whether it is proceeding with a lese majeste lawsuit against de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra will be read out to the public as planned tomorrow (May 29) despite his plea to postpone it, confirmed OAG spokesperson Prayut Petchkun late last night (May 28).
Regardless of Thaksin’s formal request filed today for indefinite postponement of the OAG’s public announcement involving his lese majeste lawsuit with a unilateral claim of his being currently infected with Covid-19, the OAG’s significant decision will certainly be read out at the agency’s headquarters at 9.00 a.m. tomorrow, according to the spokesperson who said he himself will dutifully do the reading.
The billionaire, politically powerful Thaksin has earlier said he would attend the scheduled announcement of the OAG’s decision to find out for himself whether the agency will proceed with the draconian lese majeste lawsuit to the Criminal Court against him or simply drop it.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss has been accused of mentioning the monarchy in alleged connection with the 2014 coup staged by former army chief-turned-prime minister/de facto Ruam Thai Sang Chart boss/now privy councillor Prayut Chan-o-cha to depose his sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power during an interview with a news agency in Seoul in the following year.
If charged guilty of the lese majeste law also known as Section 112 of the Criminal Code, Thaksin could possibly be spared detention in prison and released under bail, pending time-consuming proceedings in court.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss had manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars to otherwise serve a royal pardon-curtailed, one-year jail sentence for power abuse and misconduct charges perpetrated during his previous premiership, citing mystery-shrouded “critical illnesses” which had contentiously landed him a six-month, privileged stay in a private ward at Police Hospital until he was released on parole earlier this year.
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Top abd Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
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