Popular Post webfact Posted March 31, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2023 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/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2023-04-01 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2baht Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 3 hours ago, webfact said: offered to put himself behind bars How quaint! Will they feed him watery fish head soup too??? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Thaksin! Thaksin! Thaksin! Thaksin! ???? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hotchilli Posted April 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 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. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 1 minute ago, zzaa09 said: Deal's already been settled. And your source of this settlement is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 1 minute ago, hotchilli said: And your source of this settlement is? Secrets that I can't reveal here...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, zzaa09 said: Secrets that I can't reveal here...... Ahhh... ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purdey Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ignore it Posted April 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 Can he bring his sister? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Some posts trolling about Trump have been removed as this topic is not about Trump. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgMech Cowboy Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgMech Cowboy Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogmatix Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeMachine Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 I'm just wondering being out of Thailand could be time construed as time spent in prison. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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