By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS THAKSIN Shinawatra and high-level government officials were today (Nov. 12) summoned for testimony before a House committee later this month pertaining to last year’s contentious stay of the then-convict at large at Police Hospital.
House Committee on Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & National Reform Chair Rangsiman Rome has formally summoned the de facto Pheu Thai boss, Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong, Corrections Department Director-General Sahakarn Petchnarin and Police Hospital chief official Pol.Lt.Gen. Thavisilp Vejavitharn, among other high-level government officials, for testimony before the House panel on Nov. 22 in regard to Thaksin’s six-month stay at the hospital in an alleged, successful conspiracy to keep himself from being literally put behind bars at a prison to otherwise serve his curtailed, one-year jail sentence for power abuses perpetrated during his previous premiership.
The billionaire power player/father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra had allegedly staged a fake-out by feigning “critical illnesses” to be contentiously granted the privileged stay at Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand prison until he was released on parole earlier this year.
His critics have invariably charged he had merely feigned it without being critically ill as “officially reported” whilst no permission from the Supreme Court had been provided for the middle-of-the-night transfer of the then-convict from the prison to the hospital.
Thaksin might possibly be found guilty as alleged of staging such a fake-out at the hospital and finally returned to jail at an order of the Supreme Court whilst those government officials could possibly be held accountable for taking part in a premeditated conspiracy behind Thaksin’s alleged fake-out.
Former police chief/now Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Timewave has earlier remarked that the de facto Pheu Thai boss had not appeared to be a “critically ill” patient whom he had personally visited at the hospital twice.
Rangsiman’s House committee will almost certainly launch an inquiry into any pieces of evidence which may have featured any activities carried out by Thaksin and others during his six-month stay at the hospital.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has repeatedly requested for factual information pertaining to his medical treatment from the hospital’s executive officials but nothing has been given as yet.
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Top and Front Page: House Committee on Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & National Reform Chair Rangsiman Rome.
First insert: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra.
Second insert: Thai Liberal leader Seripisut Timewave. All photos: Thai Rath
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