By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission and a court of justice were today (Nov. 26) advised to stop wasting time fruitlessly searching for de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s medical records at Police Hospital.
Former senator Direkrit Jenkhrongtham posted on his Facebook page to suggest the NACC and the court simply cut the bureaucratic red tape and no longer waste time trying to launch an in-depth inquiry into the billionaire power player’s medical treatment records whilst staying at Police Hospital because, he pointed out, the de facto Pheu Thai boss could be officially considered to have staged a fake-out by allegedly pretending to be a patient with “critical illnesses” if he denied access by the authorities to the relevant, factual information.
The former senator said Thaksin would almost certainly be considered by court to have feigned the “critical illnesses” only to keep himself from being literally put in jail at Bangkok Remand prison and instead stayed for a six-month period at Police Hospital if he still refused to allow disclosure of his own medical records for the purported sake of “the patient’s privacy.”
“There is no conceivable reason for a patient to deny access at request of the authorities to his or her medical records unless he or she may merely have staged a fake-out,” the former senator said.
Direkrit suggested that the NACC and judicial branch stop wasting time trying to conduct an in-depth inquiry into Thaksin’s medical treatment records and factual conditions after he had been contentiously admitted at Police Hospital in lieu of one in the premises of the Bangkok prison upon last year’s homecoming from self-exile abroad.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss had been earlier sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail which was curtailed by royal pardon to only one year for power abuse charges perpetrated during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades.
The former senator was responding to news reports that Police Hospital’s executive officials have yet failed to provide a fact-finding committee under care of the anti-graft agency the sought-after medical records of the de facto Pheu Thai boss who had allegedly managed to not spend a single day behind bars.
He said the billionaire power player’s daughter-turned-Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong, among others, could possibly face duty-negligence and power-abuse charges in court due to their alleged failure to see to it that certain government personnel of the Corrections Department and Police Hospital abide by the law whilst handling the then convict at large.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Top photo: Sanook.com, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
Insert: Direkrit Jenkhrongtham. Photo: Thai Rath
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