Thai Democrat Spokesman Claims Thaksin's Passport Reinstated

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Democrat Spokesman Claims Thaksin's Passport Reinstated

The opposition Democrat Party asks the foreign minister to explain the alleged reinstatement of a Thai passport for ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

Democrat spokesperson Chawanont Intharakomalsut said he has received a letter from a civil servant of the Foreign Ministry claiming a group of politicians and some of its staff members managed to remove the name of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra from its blacklist and have issued him a new Thai passport.

Chawanont said the controversial move occurred on October 31 in the ministry's Department of the Consular Affairs which had been closed during the recent flooding in Bangkok.

Chawanont noted that Foreign Minister Surapong Towichakchaikul was in Dubai between November 22 and 25 and he believed the minister then met with Thaksin to deliver his new passport.

The spokesperson urged Surapong to give an explanation on the matter, present his ministry's blacklist to the public to show whether Thaksin's name has been removed and set up a panel to investigate.

Chawanont asked the House committee on foreign affiairs to clarify whether it authorized its chairman Sunai Junlapongsathorn to submit a complaint to the International Court of Justice against former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva, also the current Democrat leader, and his ex-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban over the crackdown on the red-shirt protests last year.

Chawanont said Sunai claimed he lodged the petition on his own, but the spokesperson said that information he obtained showed that he used his position as the chairman of the Thai House committee on foreign affairs to sponsor the submission.

-- Tan Network 2011-12-15

[sparebox2]

If it is true, Thaksin is really a bad bad man to keep quiet about it.

[Buchholz]

What a lap dog.

The Foreign Minister is now reduced to a lowly passport courier.

How many other Thais receive such door-to-door service as to have a new passport hand-delivered to them by the Foreign Minister?

The clown show rolls on.

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Edited December 15, 2011 by Buchholz

[hellodolly]

If it is true

can we now have a election and get on with the business of government for the people.:jap:

[Skywalker69]

So unexpected

[rixalex]

Chawanont noted that Foreign Minister Surapong Towichakchaikul was in Dubai between November 22 and 25 and he believed the minister then met with Thaksin to deliver his new passport.

If true (and putting aside for a moment all the ridiculousness of an on the run felon being issued a passport) one wonders on what grounds Thaksin was allowed to have someone pick up the passport for him. The rules are very clear with regards this. Passports must be collected by passport holders themselves.

Once again, one rule for the rest of you plebs, another rule for us.

Edited December 15, 2011 by rixalex

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Thaksin's 'got a new Thai passport'

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Thursday that he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had allegedly been given a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond showed the original and provided copies of the letter - signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" - to the media Thursday. The letter claimed that the ministry's computer was unlocked to issue the passport on October 31 - at a time when the immigration offices on Chaeng Wattana Road were closed due to flooding. According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of a person was removed from the black list.

-- The Nation 2011-12-15

[david555]

If it is true, Thaksin is really a bad bad man to keep quiet about it.

he is only waiting for the red carpet to be rolled out ............. want to do it in style......

[h90]

What a lap dog.

The Foreign Minister is now reduced to a lowly passport courier.

How many other Thais receive such door-to-door service as to have a new passport hand-delivered to them by the Foreign Minister?

The clown show rolls on.

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Well Thaksin is the boss of the government and the purpose of the government is to whitewash Thaksins crimes.

They told it from the beginning.... so it is hardly surprising.

[janverbeem]

Thaksin's 'got a new Thai passport'

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Thursday that he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had allegedly been given a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond showed the original and provided copies of the letter - signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" - to the media Thursday. The letter claimed that the ministry's computer was unlocked to issue the passport on October 31 - at a time when the immigration offices on Chaeng Wattana Road were closed due to flooding. According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of a person was removed from the black list.

-- The Nation 2011-12-15

So if it's so that this happened without cooperation of immigration,than I'm sure the passport can be declared invalid and the name reentered on he blacklist.

[impulse]

So what's the big deal? Any low level government yutz could sneak into a closed government office and print up a passport.

If he printed one up for Charles Manson or Jack the Ripper, do you figure they'd get into the country- (assuming, of course, Jack the Ripper was still alive in this analogy)?

The real news will break if and when he steps off the plane on Thai territory. Everything that happens before that is just posturing and puffing of the chests.

[ratcatcher]

Thaksin's 'got a new Thai passport'

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Thursday that he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had allegedly been given a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond showed the original and provided copies of the letter - signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" - to the media Thursday. The letter claimed that the ministry's computer was unlocked to issue the passport on October 31 - at a time when the immigration offices on Chaeng Wattana Road were closed due to flooding. According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of a person was removed from the black list.

-- The Nation 2011-12-15

So if it's so that this happened without cooperation of immigration,than I'm sure the passport can be declared invalid and the name reentered on he blacklist.

That would be nice in the real world, however here in Amazing Thailand, Mr Thaksin is treated by some as a demi-god.

My signature says it all.:jap:

[david555]

Thaksin's 'got a new Thai passport'

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Thursday that he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had allegedly been given a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond showed the original and provided copies of the letter - signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" - to the media Thursday. The letter claimed that the ministry's computer was unlocked to issue the passport on October 31 - at a time when the immigration offices on Chaeng Wattana Road were closed due to flooding. According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of a person was removed from the black list.

-- The Nation 2011-12-15

So if it's so that this happened without cooperation of immigration,than I'm sure the passport can be declared invalid and the name reentered on he blacklist.

are you sure he did not appointed his men at important key-positions when he was in power ?

[jonclark]

This is hilarious - Thailand wonders why so many foreign pedos and criminals flock here - Look at the standards the government sets for itself as an example for the people to follow.

Thailand Pedos and Crimals of the world salute you!!!

[Buchholz]

For a government that promised transparency, we have a secret inner-circle-only Cabinet meetings discussing royal pardons... and now the clandestine opening of closed government offices to secretly issue passports and scribble out blacklists... on Halloween, appropriately enough.

Shadowy comings and goings of a Foreign Minister flying overseas to secretly meet with fugitive relatives...

The Yingluck government reads like a cheap dime novel.

[hellodolly]

This is hilarious - Thailand wonders why so many foreign pedos and criminals flock here - Look at the standards the government sets for itself as an example for the people to follow.

Thailand Pedos and Crimals of the world salute you!!!

I smell the makings of a new hub.

[ccarbaugh]

39 years ago, Nixon tried a similar strategy. I wonder if the same outcome will result in "The New Democratic Thailand?"

[TAWP]

This is hilarious - Thailand wonders why so many foreign pedos and criminals flock here - Look at the standards the government sets for itself as an example for the people to follow.

Thailand Pedos and Crimals of the world salute you!!!

The reason so many criminals go here is that they feel like home?

[rubl]

Chawanont asked the House committee on foreign affiairs to clarify whether it authorized its chairman Sunai Junlapongsathorn to submit a complaint to the International Court of Justice against former premier Abhisit Vejjajiva, also the current Democrat leader, and his ex-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban over the crackdown on the red-shirt protests last year.

Chawanont said Sunai claimed he lodged the petition on his own, but the spokesperson said that information he obtained showed that he used his position as the chairman of the Thai House committee on foreign affairs to sponsor the submission.

Pheu Thai MP Sunai watered down his 'request' to the ICC into 'dropping by' while in The Hague, like a courtesy visit. This was supposed to be on the 9th this month. Now it's the 15th, no news yet, no photo-op, no nothing. Makes you wonder if the MP was in the Hague, and if he managed to have his (undoubtedly) short visit to the ICC. Maybe it finally dawned upon him that Thailand isn't a full member yet and the ICC is not interesting in domestic political cases in countries with a working judicial system

BTW the ICC was a bit busy at the time preparing for "The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“the Assembly”) opened its tenth session at UN Headquarters in New York, which will last from 12 to 21 December 2011."

http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/0E0A4EE7-6C79-4FA1-85CB-4752DEEC1488.htm

Edited December 15, 2011 by rubl

[Buchholz]

It's a reoccurring situation, rubl. Just like Amsterdam's grand-standing and vocal application to ICC was quietly ignored or tossed aside. Just like Thaksin's much vaunted speech in the USA at the conference, that never materialized and was hushed up.

Thaksin's PR team is long on blustering and short on results.

[Crushdepth]

Issuing passports to criminal fugitives could be a lucrative business. Maybe Thailand could be the hub for that.

[stickyrice2000]

The people elected Yingluck over Abhisit for?

[OzMick]

Issuing passports to criminal fugitives could be a lucrative business. Maybe Thailand could be the hub for that.

With Thaksin as the broker - could be a nice little earner. Having the FM deliver would add a touch of class.

[webfact]

SHINAWATRA GOVERNMENT

Passport already issued to Thaksin : Democrat

Pimnara Pradabwit

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said yesterday he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had already been issued a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond, a former secretary to the foreign minister under the previous government, showed the original and provided copies of the letter signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" to the media yesterday.

The letter claimed that a ministry computer was unlocked by an official who wanted to please "big boss", to issue the passport on October 31, at a time when the Consular Affairs Department's office in Chaeng Wattana was closed due to flooding.

According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of the person in the passport was removed from the black list.

The chief of the passport division at the Consular Affairs Department is authorised to issue passports to eligible persons who are required to apply in person and pay the fee to the Foreign Ministry. The application form, serial number of the passport and the number on the fee receipt must be matched.

Chavanond said that the information was confirmed as he had also learned from his sources at the ministry that a passport had been issued and already delivered to Thaksin. It might have been done during Foreign Minister Surapong Towichuk-chaikul's trip to Dubai from November 22-25, he said.

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday called on the foreign minister to prove that Thaksin has not been issued a passport and that his name has not been taken off the black list.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said he had not received any information from the department on the issuance of a passport to Thaksin. Foreign Minister Surapong would inform the public directly, the spokesman said.

Contacted by reporters seeking clarification, Surapong said he was busy in a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and would give an interview on the issue later.

-- The Nation 2011-12-16

[Buchholz]

Contacted by reporters seeking clarification, Surapong said he was busy in a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and would give an interview on the issue later.

let's hear your song, surapong

[FOODLOVER]

Yingluck is a liar and has traded the lives of the Thai people for her brothers return. Why dont the democrats impeach? Seems they have plenty of evidence against this "PM", don't they?

[prefabs]

Yingluck is a liar and has traded the lives of the Thai people for her brothers return. Why dont the democrats impeach? Seems they have plenty of evidence against this "PM", don't they?

Because there ain't enough of them worried enough for that call.

[Ricardo]

Issuing passports to criminal fugitives could be a lucrative business. Maybe Thailand could be the hub for that.

Isn't Khao San Road already famed as a Hub for dodgy-documentation ?

Contacted by reporters seeking clarification, Surapong said he was busy in a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and would give an interview on the issue later.

let's hear your song, surapong

"I Did It His Way" ?

[auserb]

Thaksin's 'got a new Thai passport'

The Nation

Democrat spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Thursday that he had received a letter claiming that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra had allegedly been given a Thai passport on the quiet.

Chavanond showed the original and provided copies of the letter - signed by a "New Breed of Foreign Ministry Official" - to the media Thursday. The letter claimed that the ministry's computer was unlocked to issue the passport on October 31 - at a time when the immigration offices on Chaeng Wattana Road were closed due to flooding. According to the letter, a passport was issued and the name of a person was removed from the black list.

-- The Nation 2011-12-15

So if it's so that this happened without cooperation of immigration,than I'm sure the passport can be declared invalid and the name reentered on he blacklist.

about time too

[Buchholz]

Issuing passports to criminal fugitives could be a lucrative business. Maybe Thailand could be the hub for that.

Isn't Khao San Road already famed as a Hub for dodgy-documentation ?

Contacted by reporters seeking clarification, Surapong said he was busy in a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and would give an interview on the issue later.

let's hear your song, surapong

"I Did It His Way" ?

He learned from the master baritone....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yng8GzbTCsw