By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI boss/parolee Thaksin Shinawatra has now become a free man, given today’s (June 3) royal pardon on occasion of Her Majesty Queen Suthida’s 48th birthday anniversary.
A royal decree has been issued for a number of inmates and parolees to be royally pardoned and practically freed from jail sentences including the former prime minister who has been earlier released on parole.
Among others, Thaksin was granted complete freedom on the auspices of Her Majesty Queen Suthida’s 48th birthday anniversary today (June 3).
For that reason, the EM bracelet was immediately removed from the former parolee’s ankle and his legal obligation to formally report himself to a Bangkok probation office on a monthly basis was automatically terminated.
Last month, the de facto Pheu Thai boss was released on parole and returned to stay at his Chan Song Lah residence on the Thonburi side of the Thai capital after he had literally served an eight-month period behind bars at Klong Prem prison with a four-month time to spend as parolee until he would otherwise become a free man in the upcoming September.
The former globetrotter Thaksin had been judged by court as guilty of perpetrating misconduct during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades and sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail but had never been practically imprisoned for a single day since he had returned from a 17-year-long self-exile overseas and instead had allegedly taken legal loopholes to avoid the jail term which had been curtailed to only one year under a previous royal pardon.
Instead, he had enjoyed a six-month-long, privileged, yet contentious stay at Police Hospital simply by staging a thinly-veiled fake-out as a “critically ill patient” until he was originally released on parole.
However, he had been finally returned to jail at the order of the Supreme Court with several senior government officials at the Corrections Department and Police Hospital being charged with duty-negligence and misconduct pertaining to an alleged conspiracy to evidently flout the law and relevant rules in his undue favours.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Above photo – Naewna, Front Page photo – Amarin TV
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