By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE SUPREME COURT has been formally asked to consider bringing de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra back to jail as an unduly released convict and launch a probe into irregularities allegedly done in his favour by the Corrections Department.
Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak has today (Jan.16) filed the petition for Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons with political positions to consider giving an order for the authorities to literally return Thaksin, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, to Bangkok Remand prison and investigating the alleged irregularities on the part of the Corrections Department perpetrated to the extent that the highly-privileged convict had not spent a single day behind bars to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence upon his homecoming from a 17-year-long self-exile abroad in 2023.
The agency under care of the Ministry of Justice had not only failed to execute the Supreme Court’s verdict earlier handed to the billionaire power player due to retroactive charges of power abuse perpetrated during his previous premiership but used legal loopholes to grant him contentious privileges of staying for a six-month period at Police Hospital in lieu of the prison, according to Charnchai who charged that such misconduct on the part of the executive branch was evidently tantamount to an act of denying the power of the judicial branch.
With the alleged help of the department’s executive officials and others, Thaksin had been invariably accused of feigning “critical illnesses” to literally keep himself from being thrown in jail until he was released on parole by approval from Justice Minister/Prachachart leader Thavi Sodsong early last year.
It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal cases against persons with political positions will eventually act in accordance with the latest petition against the de facto Pheu Thai boss or simply waive it.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photoa: Thai Rath
Insert: Former Democrat MP Charnchai Issarasenarak. Photo: Thai Rath
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