By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A FORMER LAWMAKER has doubted that medical records of Police Hospital on last year’s purported treatment of the “critically-ill” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra will be entirely based on factual evidence and no tall tale.
Ex-Democrat MP/now Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom posted on his Facebook page yesterday (Jan.13) to cast his doubt that the sought-after records which Police Hospital may finally unveil will definitely be based on truthful health conditions and medical treatments of the billionaire power player who had been treated as the then-convict at large for his “critical illnesses” throughout a six-month period last year.
Nevertheless, Warong, himself holding a medical profession, said those medical records could possibly be doctored to coalesce with a six-month-long fake-out allegedly staged by Thaksin at the hospital.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss who was invariably accused of feigning “critical illnesses” the symptoms of which had been shrouded in secrecy under the pretext of the patient’s privacy had allegedly manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence on charges of power abuse perpetrated during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades.
It remains to be seen whether Police Hospital’s medical records on Thaksin, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, will be submitted to the Medical Council of Thailand as formally required on the upcoming Wednesday after the National Anti-Corruption Commission had earlier sought but failed to obtain them.
The anti-graft agency has set up an ad hoc committee to investigate Thaksin’s alleged fake-out at the hospital and summoned relevant government officials and others for testimony but no progress has been officially reported as yet.
Either without factual medical records or with their tall-tale content for Thaksin’s highly-privileged stay at the hospital in lieu of the prison, the NACC investigating panel could possibly conclude that the then-convict at large had feigned it all and send him back to jail to literally serve his one-year sentence, according to the Thai Pakdee chair.
Political activist Tul Sittisomwong has earlier cautioned that any of Police Hospital’s executive officials and doctors could possibly be held guilty by court of misconduct charges if they used legal loopholes or compromised their profession and prestige to endorse the alleged, thinly-veiled fake-out of the billionaire Thaksin who had allegedly played a pivotal part of the power play over the surprise dumping of the Move Forward from an original, post-election alliance of coalition partners and the jaw-dropping setup of a Pheu Thai-led government with “Uncles’ Camps”, namely the Palang Pracharath and Ruam Thai Sang Chart, jumping onto the bandwagon in lieu of the reformist party.
Tul, himself holding a medical profession, said Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong could possibly be held guilty of power abuse and sentenced to jail allegedly for his undue releasing of the de facto Pheu Thai boss on parole after he had granted him the contentious privileges deemed inaccessible to ordinary convicts at the hospital.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Phue Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: Ex-Democrat MP/now Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom. Photo: Thai Rath
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