De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra being wheeled to undergo CT scan and MRI at Police Hospital on Oct. 13, 2023. Photo: Thai Rath

 

A POLITICAL ACTIVIST group is planning to visit, albeit uninvited, the “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss/convicted inmate Thaksin Shinawatra at Police Hospital on Sunday to see for themselves whether he may remain clinically ill.

 

Calling themselves the Students & People’s Network For Thailand Reform, the activists told reporters today (Oct.18) they preferred to find out whether Thaksin may have gotten clinically ill to justify any longer stay at Police Hospital beyond the upcoming Sunday, the date on which the 60-day time limit for him to remain outside of a prison is scheduled to end.

 

Thaksin has been staying in a private ward on the 14th floor of one of the Police Hospital’s buildings where security measures have been specifically tightened for nearly a couple of months.

 

However, his further stay at the hospital could not be legally allowed beyond the 60-day limit without official endorsement by Corrections Department director-general Sahakarn Petnarin.

 

By Thai Newsroom Reporters

Top: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra being wheeled to undergo CT scan and MRI at Police Hospital on Oct. 13, 2023. Photo: Thai Rath

 

Full story: THAI NEWSROOM 2023-10-19

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra being wheeled to undergo CT scan and MRI at Police Hospital on Oct. 13, 2023

Staged fiasco.

Looks like they are out to get him.

The cure would be to tell him his sentence only starts when he is actually located in prison 🤔

He is obviously a very sick man.

We should make sure he will be in a quiet hospital room for the rest of his life.

Make sure there are no reporters or anybody else who could distract him from concentrating on his health.

 

 

Absolute farce! Be a man and do the time! You did the crime!

IMO they should just end this charade now.

 

Release him to his own hospital (Praram 9), or home confinement through February 2024, which is when most predict he will be given a final release pardon.

 

Why go through all this angst for four months? Rip the band-aid off. 

 

They intend to visit him?

They won't get anywhere near him, in fact they won't get past the front gate of the hospital.

 

I suppose the next stage will be a protest camp outside the gates of the hospital, stages, sound systems and no doubt "guards" to "protect" the protesters. Maybe they have raised some money?

1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:

They intend to visit him?

They won't get anywhere near him, in fact they won't get past the front gate of the hospital.

I'm surprised that there has been no sympathetic (to their cause that is) 'insider' (nurse or cleaner etc.) reporting on the true state of Tony's situation. That is of course if he is actually in the hospital. 

 

He needs a candlelight vigil, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.

I don't think they really want to know if he is sick or not, they just want to see if they can get him put in prison. 

5 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

They intend to visit him?

They won't get anywhere near him, in fact they won't get past the front gate of the hospital.

 

I suppose the next stage will be a protest camp outside the gates of the hospital, stages, sound systems and no doubt "guards" to "protect" the protesters. Maybe they have raised some money?

They get to join hands and sing Kumbaya 😀

7 hours ago, 2baht said:

Absolute farce! Be a man and do the time! You did the crime!

What is the crime?

10 minutes ago, RobU said:

What is the crime?

You know! The crime he was sentenced to 8 years for! 🤔

 

 

Edited October 19, 20232 yr by 2baht

8 minutes ago, 2baht said:

You know! The crime he was sentenced to 8 years for! 🤔

 

 

 No i don't, that's why I asked. It's obvious by your response that you don't either

Maybe they are worried he is not receiving the best of care......could that be why they want to visit?

4 minutes ago, RobU said:

 No i don't, that's why I asked. It's obvious by your response that you don't either

Thaksin faces years in jail after convictions of graft and abuse of power.

15 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Thaksin faces years in jail after convictions of graft and abuse of power.

After your refusal to give me a proper answer I looked this up. He sold his communications business to a Singapore group quite legally and made Billions of dollars, he would probably have become the richest man in Thailand . The army then stepped in and deposed him. The courts, under the oversight of the illegal army regime then decided to seize the majority of his profit under the auspice of Wong doing. The army regime then proceeded to dip its head in the trough and set up a political system where it is impossible for the party with the most votes to have any influence unless the former regime approves. Once the money was used up with graft and corruption and the skewed political system controlled by unelected senators was in place, the army stepped down and allowed 'democratic' elections. The courts then reduced the sentence and allowed him to return, probably seriously ill and wants to die in his home country hence the reason he is in hospital

4 minutes ago, RobU said:

After your refusal to give me a proper answer I looked this up. He sold his communications business to a Singapore group quite legally and made Billions of dollars, he would probably have become the richest man in Thailand . The army then stepped in and deposed him. The courts, under the oversight of the illegal army regime then decided to seize the majority of his profit under the auspice of Wong doing. The army regime then proceeded to dip its head in the trough and set up a political system where it is impossible for the party with the most votes to have any influence unless the former regime approves. Once the money was used up with graft and corruption and the skewed political system controlled by unelected senators was in place, the army stepped down and allowed 'democratic' elections. The courts then reduced the sentence and allowed him to return, probably seriously ill and wants to die in his home country hence the reason he is in hospital

Well there you go! 

55 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Well there you go! 

probably "looked up" on Wiki, so that doesn't mean much - considering any man or his dog can change the story to suit the occasion. 

2 hours ago, Artisi said:

probably "looked up" on Wiki, so that doesn't mean much - considering any man or his dog can change the story to suit the occasion. 

Well why don't you give me some links to point me in the 'Right' direction? I checked with all the reputable news services. Or are you another one with an unfounded opinion

48 minutes ago, RobU said:

Well why don't you give me some links to point me in the 'Right' direction? I checked with all the reputable news services. Or are you another one with an unfounded opinion

Maybe you should look up the land deals he made in his wife’s name and the Tak bai massacre of 1500 people most of whom were his political opponents - one question what do YOU get out of falsely defending a correctly convicted criminal?

Edited October 19, 20232 yr by bizboi

11 minutes ago, bizboi said:

Maybe you should look up the land deals he made in his wife’s name and the Tak bai massacre of 1500 people most of whom were his political opponents - one question what do YOU get out of falsely defending a correctly convicted criminal?

I think you should provide a link to your "massacre of 1500 people".

There was a disgraceful incident, but not on that scale.

9 hours ago, RobU said:

What is the crime

 

 

•  Abusing authority to order the Exim Bank to approve a 4 billion baht loan to Myanmar, benefitting his own companies.

•  Unlawfully ordering the Government Lottery Office to sell two- and three-digit lottery.

• Abusing his authority to have a concession contract of Shin Corp amended to allow it to pay an excise tax for mobile phone operation services instead of concession.

And the one he got away with:

2001: hiding millions of baht in his servants' names for years. Suspected of manipulating the stock market. 

He claimed it was ' an honest mistake' !!!

Edited October 19, 20232 yr by bannork

3 hours ago, bannork said:

 

 

•  Abusing authority to order the Exim Bank to approve a 4 billion baht loan to Myanmar, benefitting his own companies.

•  Unlawfully ordering the Government Lottery Office to sell two- and three-digit lottery.

• Abusing his authority to have a concession contract of Shin Corp amended to allow it to pay an excise tax for mobile phone operation services instead of concession.

And the one he got away with:

2001: hiding millions of baht in his servants' names for years. Suspected of manipulating the stock market. 

He claimed it was ' an honest mistake' !!!

Thank you

8 hours ago, RobU said:

Well why don't you give me some links to point me in the 'Right' direction? I checked with all the reputable news services. Or are you another one with an unfounded opinion

I used to like him too, Rob—mainly for his challenge of the system—but you best dig deeper. Thailand, at least from ‘our’ perspective, was infinitely better than when he tooled up in the early 2000s. Fell out with the ex many times over this guy. Better to channel your energies to the likes of Thanatorn. Genuine switched on person with a good heart that doesn’t need the money. 

3 hours ago, daveAustin said:

I used to like him too, Rob—mainly for his challenge of the system—but you best dig deeper. Thailand, at least from ‘our’ perspective, was infinitely better than when he tooled up in the early 2000s. Fell out with the ex many times over this guy. Better to channel your energies to the likes of Thanatorn. Genuine switched on person with a good heart that doesn’t need the money. 

Thank you @daveAustin

16 hours ago, RobU said:

under the auspice of Wong doing

Is that a new Chinese law introduced into Thailand?

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

Is that a new Chinese law introduced into Thailand?

😂I have a problem saying R, I  often Wing the Wong number

3 minutes ago, RobU said:

😂I have a problem saying R, I  often Wing the Wong number

Happy to see someone take the joke in good spirit......🤣