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Thaksin Must Serve 1-Year Sentence, No More Sentence Reductions, says Wissanu


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1 hour ago, motdaeng said:

"Thaksin will be treated like any other regular prisoner ..."

 

so, therefore, the VIP treatment he received in the last few days was just a misunderstanding ...?

 

are other prisoners also allowed to ask for the same treatment ... ?

They can ask? However actually getting it might be a problem?????

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Posted
8 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Wissanu? Who was he exactly?

 

Poor thing, moving next week to utter irrelevance. And not one ounce of power left even now. Or ever before, as far as I can tell.

Wissanu, a very important player on the Thai political scene the last twenty years. 

Extracts from Wikipedia-

In 2002 Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra invited Wissanu to become a minister in his cabinet, changing from the civil service to a political career, but also threatened to dismiss him as secretary-general in case of refusal. Wissanu agreed and Thaksin made him deputy prime minister, responsible for legal and parliamentary affairs.[4]

After the 19 September 2006 military coup, he helped the military junta (Council for Democratic Reform under the Constitutional Monarchy, CDR) draft a post-coup interim constitution, alongside Borwornsak Uwanno. According to political scientist Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Borwornsak and Wissanu could "seemingly write constitutions overnight".[7] Wissanu then became a member of the military-appointed National Legislative Assembly

Since 2009 he has been the chairman of the SET-listed property developer Amata Corporation pcl and an independent director since 2007. Moreover, he has held executive positions in the private sector as chairman of BFIT Securities pcl and as its director (since 2008), chairman of Bangkok First Investment & Trust pcl (2008–2014), chairman of Namyong Terminal pcl, chairman of Sikarin pcl (2006–2014) and as its director (since 2006), chairman of RHB OSK Securities (Thailand) pcl (since 2008) and as its director (2008–2011), vice chairman of AEC Securities pcl and as its independent director (since 2013), second vice chairman of Sermsuk pcl (2011–2014) and as its director, as an independent director of The Post Publishing pcl (until 2014), an independent director of Loxley PLC (2008–2014) and as a director at Thai Airways International pcl.[8

Political scientist Eugénie Mérieau cites Wissanu Krea-ngam, along with Meechai Ruchuphan and Borwornsak Uwanno, as leading examples of legal scholars who laid the juridical foundations for authoritarian rule in Thailand, and as exponents of a "legal-military alliance for illiberal constitutionalism." Wissanu, according to Mérieau, is a proponent of theories that legalised coups d'état "by reference to the continuity of the Thai state as embodied by the king".[9

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Posted
9 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

He's a lawyer. The regime's consigliere. His lips were moving. Do not believe a word he says.

 

Thaksin's sentence currently is one year. He's eligible for parole after serving a third of the current sentence, hence the four months.

 

 

 

 

To quote Wissanu-

Thaksin can no longer seek further royal clemency, having already received a royal pardon, and he must serve the remaining 1-year sentence without the possibility of sentence reduction. This solidifies the assertion of unassailable royal authority.

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Posted
30 minutes ago, bannork said:

Doesn't Wissanu in the latest update at the top of the page, announce there will be no reductions from the I year sentence? 

That's what I was thinking. However he did say Thaksin would be treated like any other prisoner. That seems a bit contradictory.

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36 minutes ago, bannork said:

Doesn't Wissanu in the latest update at the top of the page, announce there will be no reductions from the I year sentence? 

Then you need to speak with the Justice Ministry to confirm one way or the other.

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Posted
1 minute ago, anchadian said:

Then you need to speak with the Justice Ministry to confirm one way or the other.

One could argue getting parole is not the same as sentence reduction. Time will tell, as it usually does.

 

 

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43 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Wissanu? Who was he exactly?

 

Poor thing, moving next week to utter irrelevance. And not one ounce of power left even now. Or ever before, as far as I can tell.

He's a very very funny man now just a joke before I think????

Posted
5 hours ago, lordblackader said:

Ordinary prisoners get helicopter rides to hospital - uh huh.

Probably not, but if your 'ordinary prisoner' were to die in custody, there would unlikely to be many questions asked.

 

No so with this one. The chopper ride was a shrewd move IMO, just in case.

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Posted
5 hours ago, steven100 said:

what a circus .....   Thai judicial system is a joke,  it's as corrupt as the RTP itself.

Anyone who goes to court here and expects a fair and proper hearing and judgement will be sadly mistaken.

 

Well considering 80% of the entire judiciary are corrupt, you may well be correct!

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Posted
6 hours ago, webfact said:

Former Prime Minister 'Thaksin Shinawatra' will be treated like an ordinary prisoner

Buffalo Paddies.  ????

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