Yingluck holds Cambodian passport: HK media

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Yingluck holds Cambodian passport: HK media

By The Nation

 

The Nation file photo

 

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra may have used a Cambodian passport when fleeing Thailand in August 2017, the Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday.
 

Yingluck used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of PT Corporation in August 2018, a company incorporated in Hong Kong, according to the South China Morning Post. It cited corporate filings in the Hong Kong Companies Registry.

 

The Cambodian government had claimed that it did not issue any travel papers to the ex-PM when she left Thailand under mysterious circumstances a few days before the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders was scheduled to read its verdict in a case against her.

 

Yingluck, 51, was later sentenced in absentia to five years’ imprisonment for criminal negligence, in connection to her government’s corruption-plagued rice-pledging scheme.

 

She has lived in self-imposed exile overseas and made headlines from time to time when appearing in public in countries like the UK, Japan, China and Singapore, along with her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

 

Yingluck has returned to the limelight following media reports that she became a legal representative and chairwoman of Shantou International Container Terminal in China. Her name was added into the port company’s registration filed in December 2018.

 

Her appointment as chairwoman of the Guangdong-based port operator came four months after she set up the PT Corporation. But it remained unclear what business the company is involved in.

 

Yingluck and Thaksin were in China over the weekend to visit their ancestral home in Guangdong.

 

A Bangkok-based company with the exact same name, PT Corporation, was listed as the Hong Kong firm’s founding member, the South China Morning Post reported.

 

Thaksin’s daughters, Pinthongta, Kunakornwong and Paethongtarn Shinawatra, are major shareholders in the Thai firm, according to the newspaper.

 

In Hong Kong, Yingluck’s company registered its office at the same address as another firm. One of its directors, a woman, is believed to be close to Yingluck.

 

The Hong Kong businesswoman is also managing director of a Singapore-listed property company, the Hong Kong paper reported.

 

Yingluck registered her residential address as a luxurious house on The Peak, the highest hill in Hong Kong, that belonged to the businesswoman and her husband, according to corporate filings.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30361970

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-01-10

[seajae]

so when she was the pm she already held a cambodian passport, anyone would think she was planning ahead  so she could do a runner if needed. All this does is show she was well aware what she was doing and was prepared for the outcome, so much for her innocent pleas and promises to show her innocence. 

[Siripon]

It wasn't that long ago:

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/639981-thaksins-niece-set-to-marry-son-of-hun-sens-right-hand-man/

So it's not surprising if the Cambodian dictator repaid her with a passport- She's almost one of the family now.

[kotsak]

The Peak is the the highest hill in Hong Kong Island, not in the whole territory ????

Edited January 10, 2019 by kotsak

[seajae]

4 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

The way she was allowed to escape suggests the Thai authorities were complicit or even facilitated it.

mate, I am aware of that but holding a cambodian passport showed she was prepared as well

[ezzra]

lets face it, the Shinawatras, with their untolled fortunes and connections are running circles around the Thai authorities thumbing their noses at the efforts, or rather lack of, to make sense, explain and control the damage to their images...

[mikebell]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bangkok-based company with the exact same name, PT Corporation,

What an amazing coincidence!

[NCC1701A]

Cambodia and China. Just a few more countries and they will have Thailand surrounded. 

[NCC1701A]

Yingluck in the lead gunship. Invasion Thailand 2019. 

[PatOngo]

1 hour ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

The way she was allowed to escape suggests the Thai authorities were complicit or even facilitated it.

Well, she did travel to the border in the car of a senior policeman!

[geriatrickid]

2 hours ago, seajae said:

so when she was the pm she already held a cambodian passport, anyone would think she was planning ahead  so she could do a runner if needed. All this does is show she was well aware what she was doing and was prepared for the outcome, so much for her innocent pleas and promises to show her innocence. 

You have no idea as to whether or not she held the passport when she was PM.

[geriatrickid]

2 hours ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

The way she was allowed to escape suggests the Thai authorities were complicit or even facilitated it.

Indeed. I expect that it was done with a wink and a nod.  Had she been held there would most likely have been international sanctions imposed and an uprising.

[Baerboxer]

5 hours ago, Siripon said:

It wasn't that long ago:

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/639981-thaksins-niece-set-to-marry-son-of-hun-sens-right-hand-man/

So it's not surprising if the Cambodian dictator repaid her with a passport- She's almost one of the family now.

 

One ethnic Chinese crime family that rules a country forging close ties with another ethnic Chinese crime family that was hoping to do the same!

 

Should make a good film one day.

[Baerboxer]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

Yingluck in the lead gunship. Invasion Thailand 2019. 

 

Wonder if that helicopter will have lights and radar this time? Or perhaps just fly in daylight like before 555!

[Baerboxer]

2 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Indeed. I expect that it was done with a wink and a nod.  Had she been held there would most likely have been international sanctions imposed and an uprising.

 

Uprising - only in your imagination. More likely her crooked brother would've opened his little black book, spilled some beans and watched the result from afar!

Edited January 10, 2019 by Baerboxer

[Baerboxer]

So the ethnic Chinese corrupt former terrorist dictator of Cambodia issued a Cambodian passport to the little sister of his eternal friend the ethnic Chinese corrupt criminal fugitive and wannabee dictator. And then they lied and denied it.

 

Who'd have thought it?

 

It's all about the money, money money.

[sammieuk1]

The next time she is in London apparently she's going to buy big ben and put a strap on it just to rub it in????

[MaxLee]

Well,.... the fugitive trend is getting upgraded here.......

[Rimmer]

An inflammatory post and a reply have been removed

 

A post using a copyright Getty image has been removed.

Getty have a copyright office in Bangkok and they will come after you and probably the forum if you use their images without paying for them.  

[klauskunkel]

Prayut to Hun Sen: You can have your hug back! Sniff.

 

[balo]

Good for her, innovative lady and smart, whatever people think of her. 

 

[zzaa09]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

lets face it, the Shinawatras, with their untolled fortunes and connections are running circles around the Thai authorities thumbing their noses at the efforts, or rather lack of, to make sense, explain and control the damage to their images...

Unbridled influence, power and connections.

 

Does have it's moments - regardless of situations and individuals. 

 

The pair might hold a few national passports between themselves. 

[dcnx]

7 hours ago, seajae said:

so when she was the pm she already held a cambodian passport, anyone would think she was planning ahead  so she could do a runner if needed. All this does is show she was well aware what she was doing and was prepared for the outcome, so much for her innocent pleas and promises to show her innocence. 

 

 

You know those imbeciles who are warned of a hurricane and they choose to stay at home because they don’t think anything bad is going to happen to them, only to end up getting rescued via helicopter on their roof?

 

It’s called Normalcy Bias, and a lot of people have it, including most expats here. Yingluck does not.

[dcnx]

19 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Prayut to Hun Sen: You can have your hug back! Sniff.

 

Little boys with bad hair dye. 

[yellowboat]

7 hours ago, seajae said:

mate, I am aware of that but holding a cambodian passport showed she was prepared as well

As should anyone foolhardy enough to want to lead the country who does not have military rank.  Sure she got it just before the coup.  Sure she has a pile of passports with residency visas.  She did wrong and deserved an impeachment, but she was still a much better leader than cha cha.  

[hansnl]

2 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

One ethnic Chinese crime family that rules a country forging close ties with another ethnic Chinese crime family that was hoping to do the same!

 

Should make a good film one day.

Good Chinese business practice.

[Pedrogaz]

I don't understand all the negative comments about Yingluck. She was an excellent PM. She is a victim of politics.

[ChipButty]

Got no shame these guys

[rgraham]

I would not be surprised if she is a registered democrat in the US as well.

[ChipButty]

Can you imagine if these guys where still in charge? Thai people Mai Pen Rai