2 hours ago, webfact said:

After Thaksin’s return home, Preecha informed the media that authorities agreed to grant bail due to Thaksin’s critical illness.

Sitting beside the pool.... 

Who put up the 500k bail bond? Thaksin's on-shore accounts would have been frozen when he 'fled'

Of course! Daughter would have paid it. Even though she is leader of a major political party responsible to steer policy she has been given indefinite  leave of absence from her well-paid job to push Daddy around in his stroller. 

7 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

I think those in real power want to keep a sword poised to make sure he lives up to his end of the bargain. 

ya reckon?

 

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaksin Shinawatra is being virtually held hostage by the country’s powers that be with a lese majeste lawsuit against him so that he will never do anything unacceptable to them,

what an incisive interpretation. You have a remarkably firm grasp of the obvious 

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Who gives a S * * T. 

Obviously a dozen or so AN farang who spew their banal, uninformed comments on their bogeyman of the day.

Others, as you say, don't give a S**T.

 

2 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

This whole thaksin deal is a joke.Return no prison time but hospital and no tag in the deal.The new charge is similar but he got bail very easy,my guess it will go nowhere as everyone knows.The only thing that is real was the brown envelopes.Next the sisters deal,I just wonder what normal thais think about the whole thing.The ones that support him or the party are very happy about what is happening

"normal thais" don't give a S**T.

14 hours ago, webfact said:

which might probably be delayed beyond

Wonderful use of the English language - again!

(1/3) Pheu Thai Party spokesman Danuporn Punnakan said at a press conference on Tuesday ex premier Thaksin Shinawatra is genuinely ill as he had contracted COVID-19 virus three times and is currently suffering from long COVID.

 

(2/3) Citing information from Party Leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who’s Thaksin's young daughter, Thaksin also suffers from tendonitis on his arm & cervical spondylosis on his neck.

 

(3/3) Coupled by the lack of exercise due to rhe confinement at Police Hospital and his old age, Thaksin's health deteriorated, he said Danuporn said Thaksin will now to regain his health so he could "give advice to politicians".

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1759883994840330649

 

11 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Psychological prison, permanently. He might as well have stayed in Dubai.

He told us he only wants to play with his grandchildren. Now he can do this all the time - and not much else.

Great! 

 

He's being taught a lesson that, having returned to Thailand, his life is in someone else's hands. Of course he could (and should) have known. 

8 hours ago, digger70 said:

They, (the ones in Power ) are trying to keep Thaksin on a Leash.

He's been getting away with a lot But maybe he can't Buy Everting, Let's hope for the best and see him in jail or back in his holiday Hospital If he gets Convicted.

IMHO, Thaksin has a friend in the highest place and all the yappers should remember that.

let’s not forget the unelected Senators time is up next month has the military made an arrangement with the fugitive that his party will re-elect them to keep Move Forward out of office and keep him the fugitive out of prison on this latest accusation that they have come up with . Only time will  tell are the military controlling him only he and they know  !!!!

14 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

fact is he is free on bail while others are in prison and denied bail everytime they ask...

Fact?  What are you talking about?  He is not on bail.

Correction: I see he is!  My apologies.

Edited February 20, 20242 yr by Liverpool Lou

Maybe, with any luck, he'll be appointed to the Privy Council. Then he can avoid any jail time like his nemesis Prayut, though he may have to wait in line behind Prawit.

10 hours ago, shunter said:

and possibly a swift return to goal.

Don't think think that he's in any position to play football.

4 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Fact?  What are you talking about?  He is not on bail.

 

Page one of this thread shows he is on 500,000 bail.

7 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Page one of this thread shows he is on 500,000 bail.

I've corrected my oversight already.

Land of cum-convicts and bandits 🤔

 

His daughter is quite attractive.  Any chance she needs American citizenship?  😁

If I remember well the interview, he was rather alluding to Prem.

Not sure 'someone' cares to preserve his memory....

23 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

The only thing that is real was the brown envelopes

if you think this whole thing comes down to a few payoffs and people padding their nests, you are way off the mark.

I get such a laugh bout how the narrative has shifted to portray him as frail and unthreatening. 

Poetic justice?

On 2/20/2024 at 3:17 AM, webfact said:

Thaksin’s lèse majesté case pending further investigation

 

 

Prosecution of the lèse majesté case against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been postponed, after the attorney-general ordered further investigation into the case today, in response to Thaksin’s appeal for justice.

 

Thaksin, who was released on conditional parole yesterday, reported to the Office of the Attorney-General this morning (OAG), to be informed of Attorney-General Amnat Chetcharoenrak’s decision, after he had been notified of the lèse majesté charges against him by public prosecutors in January.

 

Thaksin arrived at the OAG in a wheel chair in the company of his youngest daughter, Paetongtarn, who is also Pheu Thai party leader, and police from the Technology Crime Suppression Division, which has taken over from the Corrections Department in the handling of the case.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-20

 

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Which one is Thaksin in the picture?

 

I can't spot a neck brace anywhere.

Tell him to Join the MFP and he would be in jail right away.