Another arrest warrant issued for Thaksin

By South East Asia correspondent Karen Percy

Posted 4 hours 26 minutes ago

Thailand's Supreme Court has issued another arrest warrant for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra after the deposed leader failed to show up in court to face a second corruption case.

Mr Thaksin is charged with granting a government-backed loan of about $143 million to Burma which was then used to buy materials from his family's telecommunications company.

Mr Thaksin is living in exile in London after fleeing another corruption case last month.

Arrest warrants have already been issued for him and his wife, Pojaman Shinawatra, after they jumped bail last month in the midst of a trial involving a controversial purchase of government land in Bangkok in 2003.

A verdict in that case is due to be handed down tomorrow.

Pojaman has separately been convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail

We'll see how efficient the judicial system is with this case against Thaksin and with Sondhi L. facing charges with the death penalty a clear possibility. The soap opera continues.

In relation to the OP (Original Post), when will we know of Thaksins ability to get asylum in the UK? I assume there will be a hearing.

Thread started July 30, 2008:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Supreme-Cour...in-t203169.html

Supreme Court Takes New Case Against Thaksin Over Myanmar Loan

... The soap opera continues...

I changed channels a week ago.

Another arrest warrant issued for Thaksin

By South East Asia correspondent Karen Percy

Posted 4 hours 26 minutes ago

Thailand's Supreme Court has issued another arrest warrant for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra after the deposed leader failed to show up in court to face a second corruption case.

Mr Thaksin is charged with granting a government-backed loan of about $143 million to Burma which was then used to buy materials from his family's telecommunications company.

Mr Thaksin is living in exile in London after fleeing another corruption case last month.

Arrest warrants have already been issued for him and his wife, Pojaman Shinawatra, after they jumped bail last month in the midst of a trial involving a controversial purchase of government land in Bangkok in 2003.

A verdict in that case is due to be handed down tomorrow.

Pojaman has separately been convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail

As the previous P.M. refused to take away Thaksins Diplomatic Passport there is no chance of his broher in law doing so either, all the while he has a diplomatic passport he cannot be the subject of an extradition order in the uk.

There is no possibility of this government or I suspect its succesors ever formally withdrawing his diplomatic passport which would be necessary for a request for extradition to be granted in the uk.

Unfortnately the PAD supporters are seeking to restrict democracy rather than promote it so I am afraid its a case of "business as usual" until ( if ever) a serious alternative to the present government comes forth.

Same shit, different day, as they say.

roy gsd

In relation to the OP (Original Post), when will we know of Thaksins ability to get asylum in the UK? I assume there will be a hearing.

No hearing is planned as no formal request has been made to the uk government.

As the governemtn has indicated it has no intention of revoking his diplomatic passport there is no way such a request could be met.

roy gsd

i love this country

multiple arrests warrants out for him and he and his family are on the lam, yet he gets his brother in law elected as prime minister lol