Police formally ask Foreign Affiars to revoke Yingluck’s passports

Breaking News September 29, 2017 15:51

By The Nation

 

File photo: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

 

Deputy Police Chief Pol General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said on Friday that the police have contacted the Foreign Affairs Ministry asking it to revoke former premier Yingluck Shinawatra’s passports and to confirm with them her whereabouts.

 

The police have also contacted Interpol to help find her, Srivara said. They are also checking whether she fled to Dubai as reported or not, he added.

 

The police have also charged two Nakhon Pathom police officers found to have aided Yingluck’s flight on August 23. They are accused of importing a car without Customs approval as an engine number of the car did not show in the Customs Department’s records. At least one of the officers, Pol Colonel Chairit Anurit, had already been charged with faking vehicle documents, as four fake licence plates were found in the sedan.

 

Yesterday, Srivara took 25 police officers to search Yingluck’s house in Soi Yothinpatthana 3, where they seized 17 of her personal belongings as evidence of her suspected escape from Thailand two days before the scheduled court ruling on August 25.

 

The search followed testimony given by Pol Colonel Chairit Anurit, one of three policemen suspected of facilitating Yingluck’s escape. During an interrogation last week, Chairit said that he had driven the former premier and her secretary, Nilubol Klinpratoom, in a Toyota Camry sedan from Bangkok to Sa Kaew province.

 

Srivara also sought DNA evidence at Nilubol’s condominium unit in Bangkok after getting an authorised search warrant and with the Prime Minister invoking absolute power under Article 44 of the interim charter, which is embedded in the 2017 Constitution.

 

The evidence should help verify Yingluck’s escape if traces of her DNA found on these articles match those found in the sedan allegedly used for the escape, Srivara said.

 

The DNA test should take around a week.

 

The search was also aimed at ensuring Yingluck was not hiding inside her house, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30328030

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-09-29

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The search was also aimed at ensuring Yingluck was not hiding inside her house, he said.

Check the closets and under the beds this time.  Thai policemen never played hide and go seek ?  It should be basic training. 

At last! Seems at the Foreign Ministry many Shins' creatures still have the nice position they got from them, ...as for the RTP no need to say.

I think Montenegro may have just acquired another distinguished Citizen

wow 2 former overseas Prime Minister's-something the Montenegro government can boast about in diplomatic circles

RTP needs a few of their number hanging from scaffolds. Amazing that the police and the Army run a country which promotes itself as a "democracy". Treason is always rewarded in Thailand.

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The evidence should help verify Yingluck’s escape if traces of her DNA found on these articles match those found in the sedan allegedly used for the escape, Srivara said.

 

The DNA test should take around a week.

Funny how certain cases that DNA takes a few hours to do but this one about a week !! ...Only in Thailand !!

allready has another one like big brother,so if they cancel does not matter

Well screw this lunacy.  If I were Interpol or any other international agency I would not waste one iota of energy on any request from Thailand in this matter.  The buffoons purposely or not, let her flee.  And this while she supposedly was under close scrutiny.  Such nonsense.  The whole scenario is insulting to anybody with a brain.  Any sane or rational court would have had the suspect turn in her passport and should have judged her a flight risk.  Turning in a passport does not mean it was revoked, but that is often done when suspects or defendants are awaiting trial or verdicts if they are not in court or out on bail, etc. 

Edited September 29, 20178 yr by gk10002000
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4 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

Well screw this lunacy.  If I were Interpol or any other international agency I would not waste one iota of energy on any request from Thailand in this matter.  The buffoons purposely or not, let her flee.  Any sane or rational court would have had the suspect turn in her passport and should have judged her a flight risk.  Turning in a passport does not mean it was revoked, but that is often done when suspects or defendants are awaiting trial or verdicts if they are not in court or out on bail, etc.

Physically turning in a passport is not the process in Thailand because they have exit passport controls, unlike countries like the US or Canada. Yingluck was not allowed to leave the country as part of her bail condition. This would mean that she would be flagged during the exit immigration control and would not be allowed to leave the country. She probably did not use a border crossing, so having her passport confiscated would not have made a difference. 

Just now, brucec64 said:

Physically turning in a passport is not the process in Thailand because they have exit passport controls, unlike countries like the US or Canada. Yingluck was not allowed to leave the country as part of her bail condition. This would mean that she would be flagged during the exit immigration control and would not be allowed to leave the country. She probably did not use a border crossing, so having her passport confiscated would not have made a difference. 

Exit Passport controls?  goodness.  People come and go all the time.  I would not put much faith in any Thai information database or computer system

10 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

Well screw this lunacy.  If I were Interpol or any other international agency I would not waste one iota of energy on any request from Thailand in this matter.  The buffoons purposely or not, let her flee.  And this while she supposedly was under close scrutiny.  Such nonsense.  The whole scenario is insulting to anybody with a brain.  Any sane or rational court would have had the suspect turn in her passport and should have judged her a flight risk.  Turning in a passport does not mean it was revoked, but that is often done when suspects or defendants are awaiting trial or verdicts if they are not in court or out on bail, etc. 

 

indeed, the thai authorities were either complicit or grossly incompetent in this matter and the international community will hopefully, quite rightly, ignore their requests for assistance.

6 hours ago, 007cableguy said:

Funny how certain cases that DNA takes a few hours to do but this one about a week !! ...Only in Thailand !!

Now you will understand why Thailand is rated as the 3rd most corrupt country in Asia and that is by Forbes

2 hours ago, brucec64 said:

Physically turning in a passport is not the process in Thailand because they have exit passport controls, unlike countries like the US or Canada. Yingluck was not allowed to leave the country as part of her bail condition. This would mean that she would be flagged during the exit immigration control and would not be allowed to leave the country. She probably did not use a border crossing, so having her passport confiscated would not have made a difference. 

You really think that the US can't stop you leaving, simply because there is no passport check on departure? Perhaps the airlines and immigration share notes on who is booked on flights out?

 

4 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

Exit Passport controls?  goodness.  People come and go all the time.  I would not put much faith in any Thai information database or computer system

After I reported a passport stolen, I had at least a 15 minute delay EVERY time I attempted to leave the country with a new passport. Situation lasted best part of 2 years and I was doing 3 monthly border runs using 3 different border crossing points and a trip back to Oz.

3 hours ago, dbrenn said:

You really think that the US can't stop you leaving, simply because there is no passport check on departure? Perhaps the airlines and immigration share notes on who is booked on flights out?

 

 

But would that apply to the illegals crossing the Mexican-border into the USA, or others walking out across into Canada, I'd say it might be equally easy for a well-connected person to walk across a Thai land-border, especially if escorted by police-officers ?

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Police formally ask Foreign Affiars to revoke Yingluck’s passports

Breaking News September 29, 2017 15:51

By The Nation

 

File photo: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

 

Deputy Police Chief Pol General Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said on Friday that the police have contacted the Foreign Affairs Ministry asking it to revoke former premier Yingluck Shinawatra’s passports and to confirm with them her whereabouts.

 

The police have also contacted Interpol to help find her, Srivara said. They are also checking whether she fled to Dubai as reported or not, he added.

 

The police have also charged two Nakhon Pathom police officers found to have aided Yingluck’s flight on August 23. They are accused of importing a car without Customs approval as an engine number of the car did not show in the Customs Department’s records. At least one of the officers, Pol Colonel Chairit Anurit, had already been charged with faking vehicle documents, as four fake licence plates were found in the sedan.

 

Yesterday, Srivara took 25 police officers to search Yingluck’s house in Soi Yothinpatthana 3, where they seized 17 of her personal belongings as evidence of her suspected escape from Thailand two days before the scheduled court ruling on August 25.

 

The search followed testimony given by Pol Colonel Chairit Anurit, one of three policemen suspected of facilitating Yingluck’s escape. During an interrogation last week, Chairit said that he had driven the former premier and her secretary, Nilubol Klinpratoom, in a Toyota Camry sedan from Bangkok to Sa Kaew province.

 

Srivara also sought DNA evidence at Nilubol’s condominium unit in Bangkok after getting an authorised search warrant and with the Prime Minister invoking absolute power under Article 44 of the interim charter, which is embedded in the 2017 Constitution.

 

The evidence should help verify Yingluck’s escape if traces of her DNA found on these articles match those found in the sedan allegedly used for the escape, Srivara said.

 

The DNA test should take around a week.

 

The search was also aimed at ensuring Yingluck was not hiding inside her house, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30328030

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-09-29

but for burmese it's 24 hrs

 

Edited September 30, 20178 yr by dieseldave1951

Seized 17 of her personal belongings....

3 bras, 2 prs of stockings and 12 prs of knickers...

12 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

Seized 17 of her personal belongings....

3 bras, 2 prs of stockings and 12 prs of knickers...

Go on...?

20 hours ago, Chip Allen said:

RTP needs a few of their number hanging from scaffolds. Amazing that the police and the Army run a country which promotes itself as a "democracy". Treason is always rewarded in Thailand.

Treason? Hardly. 

8 hours ago, dieseldave1951 said:

but for burmese it's 24 hrs

 

Well, it'll take them that long to work out which bits are which.