Somsak Denies Jail Term Privileges Prepared For Homecoming Thaksin

[webfact]

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

FORMER JUSTICE MINISTER Somsak Thepsuthin today (Mar.31) categorically denied he had looked to provide privileges for a self-exiled Thaksin Shinawatra who earlier offered to put himself behind bars upon his planned homecoming.

 

Somsak, leader of Sam Mit Group of former MPs who has recently hopped over from the Palang Pracharath to the Pheu Thai where Thaksin is invariably viewed as de facto party boss, was responding to comments earlier made by Thanaporn Sriyakul, head of Kasetsart University’s Political Science Association, that the deposed prime minister might practically not be put in jail to serve a combined 10-year term due to a few convicted misconduct lawsuits and might probably instead be provided a hospital or nursing home to stay after he has returned home from 16 years in self-exile abroad.

 

Thanaporn remarked that Somsak had been warmly welcomed back to the Pheu Thai by the party’s rank and file due to his having quietly done huge favours for Thaksin with such legal leniency allegedly prepared for the de facto party boss.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/03/31/somsak-denies-jail-term-privileges-prepared-for-homecoming-thaksin/

 

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[2baht]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

offered to put himself behind bars

How quaint! Will they feed him watery fish head soup too???

[zzaa09]

Thaksin! Thaksin! Thaksin! Thaksin!

 

????

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

FORMER JUSTICE MINISTER Somsak Thepsuthin today (Mar.31) categorically denied he had looked to provide privileges for a self-exiled Thaksin Shinawatra who earlier offered to put himself behind bars upon his planned homecoming.

Pure hype, no way is he giving up his freedom to return to Thailand and sit in jail.

[zzaa09]

2 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Pure hype, no way is he giving up his freedom to return to Thailand and sit in jail.

He might not spend one day in prison. 

Deal's already been settled.

[hotchilli]

1 minute ago, zzaa09 said:

Deal's already been settled.

And your source of this settlement is?

[zzaa09]

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

And your source of this settlement is?

Secrets that I can't reveal here......

[hotchilli]

2 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

Secrets that I can't reveal here......

Ahhh... ok

[Purdey]

I believe a royal pardon is only available to those in jail and can't be given without jail time. Someone here might know more. 

[ignore it]

Can he bring his sister?

[metisdead]

Some posts trolling about Trump have been removed as this topic is not about Trump.

[AgMech Cowboy]

8 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

He might not spend one day in prison. 

Deal's already been settled.

Mostly likely. (and the pardon is waiting)

[AgMech Cowboy]

7 hours ago, Purdey said:

I believe a royal pardon is only available to those in jail and can't be given without jail time. Someone here might know more. 

Yep, one day is all it'll take. IMO.

[zzaa09]

7 hours ago, Purdey said:

I believe a royal pardon is only available to those in jail and can't be given without jail time. Someone here might know more. 

Actually, there are no specific rules or tradition as to how a royal pardon can be enacted. Nor can such a writ be overruled or overturned. 

 

There have been a number of examples over the decades [not terribly publicized] of a number of forced/self-imposed exiles receiving royal pardons - all of which never saw incarceration time. 

[worgeordie]

Will he come back riding a white stallion .....to save Thailand 

while he did good things for the poorest Thai people ,populist

policies were only done to use the governments money ,not

his to win elections , he was good at first ,but the power went

to his head ,as it does with many politicians , corruption ,well

they are all at it, aren't they ,even in Western democracies. 

 

regards worgeordie

[Dogmatix]

Thaksin is not planning to go to prison. That is just his election propaganda. 
 

Somsak probably did him a much bigger favour in assisting with the Supreme Court decision that gave Thaksin back 36 billion in assets confiscated by the lower court and confirmed by the appeal court in what looked an open and shut guilty verdict. That was obviously intended as a war chest for the election and two of the 3 Ps must have signed off on it two hoping Thaksin would support one of them for PM. There is no independent judiciary in important political cases for sure.

On 4/1/2023 at 4:21 PM, worgeordie said:

Will he come back riding a white stallion .....to save Thailand 

while he did good things for the poorest Thai people ,populist

policies were only done to use the governments money ,not

his to win elections , he was good at first ,but the power went

to his head ,as it does with many politicians , corruption ,well

they are all at it, aren't they ,even in Western democracies. 

 

regards worgeordie

Actually rotten from the beginning. He started off by bribing and suborning the constitutional court to get off in his asset concealment case where he put his shares in the names of gardeners and drivers. Without that initial criminal act he would never have been PM at all.

[TimeMachine]

I'm just wondering being out of Thailand could be time construed as time spent in prison.