By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra will likely use more of his “resources” whilst striving to keep himself, his daughter-turned-prime minister and his Pheu Thai-led government affected the least possible by multiple legal battles, according to partisan sources.
Though yesterday’s final verdict passed by the Supreme Administrative Court for his fugitive sister/former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10.02 billion baht in compensation for damage done in a previous Pheu Thai government’s graft-riddled, loss-ridden rice subsidy scheme, the de facto Pheu Thai boss/father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra would ultimately continue to find legal loopholes and use personal influence among other ways and means to defend himself, his daughter-turned-prime minister and the current Pheu Thai-led government, given an immense volume of “resources” at his disposal “until the end” or to the extent that they all be affected the least possible due to the highly-precarious legal battles, according to the partisan sources.
Thaksin had been quietly suggested by unnamed persons associated with the super elite, powers-that-be to keep his hands off of the political arena for good but the mega-billionaire, power player ultimately disagreed and would yet continue to fight for the political survival of the “puppet” prime minister behind whom he has been virtually pulling the strings.
“With immense amounts of resources at his disposal, the boss had already made up his mind to fight all legal battles until the end.
“The boss would almost certainly not flee the country in the face of any threatening lawsuits. Neither would he eventually tell Paetongtarn to dissolve the House or step down under external pressure,” one partisan source concluded.
That referred the criminal lawsuit filed against the de facto Pheu Thai boss to the Supreme Court judges in charge of criminal lawsuits against persons in political positions to open a court trial on June 13 on basis of the 2023 fake-out saga in which he had allegedly feigned “critical illnesses”, with the help of executive officials of the Department of Corrections and the use of legal loopholes, in order to keep himself from being literally put behind bars for a single day at Bangkok Remand prison and to be instead granted the contentious privileges of staying in a premium ward at Police Hospital for a six-month period until he was released on parole early last year.
If found guilty in court, Thaksin could possibly be punished by law for conspiracy with others to premeditatedly perpetrate a contempt of court and violation of the laws despite a previous Supreme Court ruling which had landed him a curtailed, one-year sentence in prison on charge of power abuse committed during his previous premiership over a couple of decades earlier.
Whilst speculation has been rife and rampant to the extent that Thaksin would not be showing up in court on June 13, the prime minister’s father would stay somewhere else in the country and monitor developments of the court trial on the hospital fake-out case which would likely be a time-consuming phenomenon, according to the partisan sources.
In addition, the Criminal Court is scheduled in July to open a court trial over a separate, lese majeste lawsuit earlier lodged against the de facto Pheu Thai boss who had allegedly accused the monarchy of behind-the-scenes involvement in the 2006 coup which ousted him from elected premiership during an interview with a news agency in Seoul, South Korea in 2015.
The mega-billionaire, power player had allegedly used his ‘”resources” to strike a notorious “secret deal” with unnamed persons connected with the powers-that-be which had practically landed him the physical freedom from jail upon his return from self-exile abroad, plus the liberty of turning himself into Mr Fix-It by dumping the Move Forward as an original post-election ally, manipulating the surprise setup of the Pheu Thai-led government with the inclusion of the “Uncles’ Camps” in their coalition, naming of former real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin for prime minister, allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners and that of cabinet seats among prominent Pheu Thai figures.
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Top and Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photos: Thai Rath
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