By Thai Newsroom Reporters
AN AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE under the Medical Council of Thailand has today (Jan.16) begun to look into allegations of a fake-out staged by de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra as a former, highly-privileged convict who had stayed at a hospital in lieu of a prison for a six-month period.
Amorn Leelarasamee, head of the Medical Council’s subcommittee investigating the sustained scandals surrounding the billionaire power player, father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, said his panel would not finish the probe until March at the earliest.
The chair of the subcommittee said his panel is taking into account the “information” given by Police Hospital about the “critically-ill” Thaksin who had been arguably granted the privileges, deemed inaccessible to ordinary convicts, of staying in a private ward of the hospital during August 2023 and February 2024.
Amorn, who used the word “information” in reference to whatever Police Hospital has submitted to the Medical Council which had earlier required the hospital’s submission of Thaksin’s medical records, said the investigating panel would most certainly handle the matter in thorough and equitable fashion amidst allegations that the then-convict at large-cum-de facto Pheu Thai boss had merely feigned “critical illnesses” to literally keep himself from being put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison to otherwise serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence upon his return from self-exile abroad.
Meanwhile, former senator Kaewsan Atibodhi said Thaksin could possibly be returned to jail at an order of Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons with political positions regardless of the investigation by the Medical Council and that by the National Anti-Corruption Commission which, he said, may be separately going on.
Those who may have compromised rules of law or abused their powers only to keep the then-convict from being imprisoned with his alleged fake-out staged at the hospital could possibly be found guilty by court and consequently given jail sentences as well, according to the former senator.
Anti-Thaksin critics commented that the prime minister’s father had not only practically stayed above the law but ostensibly snubbed the royal pardon which had curtailed his eight-year jail sentence due to power abuse charges to only one year.
CAPTIONS:
Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: Amorn Leelarasamee, head of Medical Council’s ad hoc subcommittee. Photo: Naewna
Also read: Supreme Court urged to bring Thaksin back to jail
Thaksin: Govt opening door for using Bitcoin in Phuket
Torrential rain forces PM to skip visiting Pattani and only go to Yala, Narathiwat
Rush to improve image after Chinese actor’s scam centre ordeal hits tourism
Lovestruck man steals vehicle to win girl’s heart
Some Paris Olympic athletes ask for medals to be replaced after quickly deteriorating
