Thaksin to get extra security and “adequate conveniences” while in prison

[jacko45k]

7 minutes ago, TimeMachine said:

Positive action.  Finally somebody actually doing something rather than talk talk talk. He deserves a medal for attempting to rid Thailand of bad drugs.   

Ah, so now you support something he did, but you previously said he didn't do? I would go along with your opinion if you knew what it was. 

[Bangkok Barry]

50 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

2 years to 2022 ... 4 Royal pardons.

Sounds okay. Why should there be any? I don't remember Queen Liz ever overturning a court decision to jail someone.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Sounds okay. Why should there be any? I don't remember Queen Liz ever overturning a court decision to jail someone.

I expect she influenced some in a particular family matter... anyhow, we digress!

[Artisi]

5 hours ago, still kicking said:

You could not make it up 

You can in Thailand, it's easy and repeated often???? 

[KannikaP]

5 hours ago, still kicking said:

You could not make it up 

Someone did, and used a 4 year old photo.

[kevin612]

When you are rich in Thailand, you  live there like a hotel.

[alexlm]

3 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

remind what this guy did again to get exiled?

I think it was for ""corruption"".

But then lots of people in the Thai Government would need to get exiled if that was the case?

He is a billionaire. He could have come back earlier by... bribing the government... Why wait 17 years?

Anyway, we can't know. Unless we are in a small group of people high up I guess.

We can't trust anything we read online anymore... nor the government. And certainly not the Thai TV ????????????

All the public story seems fishy...

Edited August 21, 2023 by alexlm

[phetphet]

3 hours ago, bendejo said:

And if they decide to welch on the deal and lock him away Monte Christo-style what is he going to do about it, other than hope his lawyers get it into court?

 

Or perhaps bring further un disclosed charges.

[Rimmer]

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[Thailand]

To repeat.

If Thaksin comes back he has arranged a deal at the highest level and I doubt if that would include normal prison time in any shape or form.

[DavisH]

Why? He will get bail and be out in 24 hours. I highly doubt he will spend any significant time behind bars. We all know how this works. 

[mikeymike100]

3 hours ago, neeray said:

Maybe the Red Bull boy will be next.

Great sarcasm!!????

They would need to find him first?

[motdaeng]

49 minutes ago, TimeMachine said:

Positive action.  Finally somebody actually doing something rather than talk talk talk. He deserves a medal for attempting to rid Thailand of bad drugs.   

there's something wrong with your way of thinking. don't you believe that 

everyone should have the chance of a fair trial? do you think it's okay to just 

shoot so many down like a wild animal? killed also completely innocent people,

and as far as I remember, some children and women ...

 

let's say your son was in the wrong place at the wrong time during the war on drugs, 

and your beloved son was unlawful cold-bloodedly gunned down by the police.

would you still give thaksin a medal? 

 

in my opinion, people like you are mentally ill ... 

[BonnieandClyde]

7 minutes ago, DavisH said:

Why? He will get bail and be out in 24 hours. I highly doubt he will spend any significant time behind bars. We all know how this works. 

For sure.

Too long in a prison cell and he might be epsteined.

[retarius]

Hahahaha, can't keep a good man down in Thailand can you. He's being treated better than Kamnan Po.

[bendejo]

1 hour ago, soalbundy said:

This is Asia, he is a rich old man with political clout and a popular following in the country, nothing to see here.

There is buzz that Pheu Thai is no longer in his pocket, but that could be a ploy of some sort.

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/opinion/2023/08/20/opinion-thaksin-returning-pheu-thai-in-bed-with-military-parties-what-about-thailand/

 

One thing I learned from following him and his antics back in the '00s: nearly everything he says is the opposite of the truth.  Like the first time he returned to LOS from being on the lam he said he was no longer getting involved in politics.  Even the gal doing the English language news on TV said "yeah, right."

 

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by bendejo

[retarius]

10 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Great sarcasm!!????

They would need to find him first?

He's at every single F1 event. Easy to spot and easy to arrest. I guess the Interpol red notice is still in translation, or at least that was the excuse about 8 years ago.

[NorthernRyland]

6 minutes ago, alexlm said:

I think it was for ""corruption"".

But then lots of people in the Thai Government would need to get exiled if that was the case?

 

I was in the country during this time and I remember it being more like a rival faction arresting their political opponent. I first came to Thailand in 2005 so I missed what happened before this point but It's all very similar to what's happening now to Trump in the US.  Basically a non-establishment individual enters the government, despite their best efforts to keep him out, and once they're in the knives are out and they do what ever they can to expel them.

 

I bet they attempted various things before finding this corruption charge that stuck, just like the Russia collusion story that landed on Trump immediately after he took office.

[Cabradelmar]

Tired of this guy already. Just another elite involved in Thailand's disfunctional political morass... royalist, military, judiciary, elites, legislators (appointed or elected), take your pick, they are all far from honorable. 

[scorecard]

4 hours ago, jippytum said:

He made a deal with the devil to get special treatment and a pardon will follow quickly.  Shows what a self serving individual he really  is. 

And dsiplays yet again that he has no respect for the law. He was tried in a proper court several times (NOT a military kangaroo court) and found guilty (plenty of evidence made public at the time) and sentenced to jail.

 

He's a convicted criminal, a con-man, why is he now receiving special treatment? 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

remind what this guy did again to get exiled?

He did not "get exiled", he chose to go abroad and live in exile, voluntarily

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, DjSilver said:

Bit he wasn't going to prison acording to news information, that he got pardoned.

"...he got pardoned".

Where has it been stated that he has already been pardoned?  I mean apart from nowhere?

[scorecard]

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Maybe close. I remember some years ago a VIP, probably a politician but I forget now,  was jailed and after just one day he was declared sick and transferred to a luxury hospital suite. Then, as usual in the news here, nothing was ever heard of the matter again.

That was the crime fanily at Chonburi City.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, IamNoone88 said:

Inmates can apply for a Royal Pardon after serving a minimum of one third of their sentences.

It has been confirmed recently in several reports that he can apply for a pardon as soon as he is arrested.  If declined, he can try again in two years.

[2baht]

1 hour ago, TimeMachine said:

Thaksin didnt assault anyone,  kill anyone,  he did what all politicians do and thats aim money at themsleves. If he goes,  they all must go.  

Do some research, as in Thaksin's war on drugs! It may change your misled perception!

[neeray]

43 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Great sarcasm!!????

They would need to find him first?

I can't see any sarcasm. From what I have read previously, they usually know where he is. And maybe he would like to come home.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, kennw said:

He was not exiled he fled the justice system here to avoid jail. Just like the other "red bull case".

Vorayuth has not yet appeared in court so has not been given any sentence, never mind a jail sentence.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, TimeMachine said:

Thaksin didnt assault anyone,  kill anyone, 

Well, he didn't actually pull the triggers but...

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, kennw said:

Dont forget the TM30

Don't forget that he's Thai.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Sounds okay. Why should there be any? I don't remember Queen Liz ever overturning a court decision to jail someone.

She could and she did, so can Charles but as this is Thailand, not the UK, it is completely irrelevant.

Edited August 21, 2023 by Liverpool Lou