Cambodia denies having issued passport to ex-PM Yingluck

By THE NATION

 

File photo: Yingluck Shinawatra

 

CAMBODIA DENIES claims that it issued a passport to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who reportedly used it to register a company in Hong Kong, according to the Phnom Penh Post yesterday.

 

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

 

Mao Chandara, the director general of the identification department at Cambodia’s Interior Ministry, said they had not issued a passport to Yingluck. 

 

“We don’t know whether it [the passport] is fake or not,” he told the Phnom Penh Post.

 

The ex-PM was suspected of using a foreign travel document 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’ in prison for criminal negligence, in connection with her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

She has since lived overseas, making 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 returned to the limelight recently following media reports that she has become a legal representative and chairwoman of Shantou International Container Terminal in China. 

 

Her name was added to the port company’s registration filed last month. Her appointment as chairwoman of the Guangdong-based port operator came four months after she set up PT Corporation. 

 

But it remains 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 of the 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 a firm, among whose directors is a Hong Kong businesswoman believed to be close to Yingluck. 

 

The 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/30362026

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-01-11

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

CAMBODIA DENIES claims that it issued a passport to former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra

Cambodia, if need be, will also deny that Phnom Penh is it's capital city, what are they suggesting that the passport is fake or doctored? this is how third world country behave, no responsibility...

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mao Chandara, the director general of the identification department at Cambodia’s Interior Ministry, said they had not issued a passport to Yingluck. 

 

“We don’t know whether it [the passport] is fake or not,” he told the Phnom Penh Post.

and these were the last words anyone ever heard from Mr. Chandara because he obviously did not read the memo.

Edited January 10, 20197 yr by NCC1701A

They can deny it as much as they want, anything can be bought for money in a corrupt country like Cambodia. 

 

If remembering correctly was it not a Lao passport she absconded on, she did have 3 or 4 passports one diplomatic ,

"a kite that's is flying only when the wind blows if favour"

sigh

Yingluck would be a great PM in Cambodia.

2 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Yingluck would be a great PM in Cambodia.

Tell that to Hun Sen! He's got a bigger snout than YL!

3 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Yingluck would be a great PM in Cambodia.

She would fit right in.

The deceptions continue & little is done to extradite her & the "Puppeteer of Dubai" back to Thailand to "face the music"!!!! 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

“We don’t know whether it [the passport] is fake or not,” he told the Phnom Penh Post.

"No comment" would have been a better thing to say. 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Mao Chandara, the director general of the identification department at Cambodia’s Interior Ministry, said they had not issued a passport to Yingluck. 

 

“We don’t know whether it [the passport] is fake or not,” he told the Phnom Penh Post.

How don't you know? If you didn't issue it, it has to be a fake, right? And you clearly state that you didn't issue it. Oh wait, you're one of those people who try to s*** out their elbows. It all makes sense now. ????

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Cambodia denies having issued passport to ex-PM

Of course they have to deny it. Hun Sen and Prayut Chan-o-cha are close friends and have many things in common. I imagine PM Prayut would be deeply offended if he knew Cambodia issued a passport to Thai junta public enemy No.2. 

29 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Of course they have to deny it. Hun Sen and Prayut Chan-o-cha are close friends and have many things in common. I imagine PM Prayut would be deeply offended if he knew Cambodia issued a passport to Thai junta public enemy No.2. 

Seems the friendship with Thaksin (or love of money) is great. What a great bunch of leaders we got here in Thailand. 

3 hours ago, balo said:

They can deny it as much as they want, anything can be bought for money in a corrupt country like Cambodia.

Or any other country in the world ...

It ain't what you know, it's who you know

24/7/365

2 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Yingluck would be a great PM in Cambodia.

Yes indeed. She would be enthusiastically supported by the vast majority of ordinary (with due respect) folk just like she was in Thailand.

You can buy EU passport legally if you comply with their investment rules(how much "€€€" ) one brings in.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

But it remains unclear what business the company is involved in.

Exporting knock-off Burberry boots from China?

I am just happy the poor girl has got some steady income and is working again to take her mind off all those bushels of rice.

 

you know what they say 'they all look the same'; maybe she changed her hair with thicker upper hair lip, from living on the farm.

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Cambodia, if need be, will also deny that Phnom Penh is it's capital city, what are they suggesting that the passport is fake or doctored? this is how third world country behave, no responsibility...

Unlike the president of the USA.

3 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Or any other country in the world ...

It ain't what you know, it's who you know

24/7/365

Although it sometimes can be very prudent to collect "useless information" with an eye on the future.

Chinese-Thai and Sikhs - the scourge of Thailand

8 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Yes indeed. She would be enthusiastically supported by the vast majority of ordinary (with due respect) folk just like she was in Thailand.

Yet, still playing up to traditional influence and perpetuating an underhanded establishment manner of scallawaggery....

These people can buy passports for all countries they want... It is only a matter of money and how much

 

Does anyone really care - other than it making a few boring news reports.

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

Does anyone really care - other than it making a few boring news reports.

The Shinawatra advance preparations for future money laundering always interesting.

Absolute Bull S,,,,,,,,

On 1/11/2019 at 10:13 AM, Burma Bill said:

Yes indeed. She would be enthusiastically supported by the vast majority of ordinary (with due respect) folk just like she was in Thailand.

 

????????  555!

 

 

You really think the average ordinary oppressed Cambodian ruled over by the criminal dictator Hun Sen and his crime family would welcome and support a foreign criminal ethnic Chinese from another country and crime family coming in to share the trough?

 

 

17 hours ago, SheungWan said:

The Shinawatra advance preparations for future money laundering always interesting.

 

If "normal" people move money off shore or between countries the banks are very very inquisitive nowadays. Wanting proof of source of funds, tax id numbers etc etc etc.

 

Unless your a convicted fraudster billionaire ex politician. They it seems you can do whatever you fancy!

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

If "normal" people move money off shore or between countries the banks are very very inquisitive nowadays. Wanting proof of source of funds, tax id numbers etc etc etc.

 

Unless your a convicted fraudster billionaire ex politician. They it seems you can do whatever you fancy!

 

Yep, including move big money to Africa to buy big stake in blood diamond mines.