Thai officials have declared the former PM Thaksin and his wife to be fugitives from justice. The government has formally requested the UK to extradite the deposed leader and his wife under the terms of the 1911 Siam-Great Britain extradition treaty. The Thai courts are seeking to complete the seizure of the Shinawatra assets estimated at a net worth of 76 billion baht.
"But if Mr Thaksin seeks asylum in Britain it will complicate matters." The Attorney-General admitted to the press, while discounting the Chiang Mai native's claim that he had flown to the UK in fear of being subjected to an unfair trial and that the charges against him are political and not criminal.
The Supreme Court will decide the frozen assets matter next week and the foreign ministry will take the court's application for the revocation of Thaksin's diplomatic passport.
Immigration police have been alerted to the possibility of Thaksin trying to slip back into the country in disguise.
How the mighty have fallen some might say, but old Blue Eyes is still a free man in London.
And the one person gaining the most for this chain of events.
Big Nose Samak.
Now he's no one's puppet or at least the strings are invisible again.
Your article is extremely biased. May be it'll an excuse for having such an attitude for ... the only oldest news's sources all belong to Taksin's opponents, and you concieted farang happened to be fooled and misleaded so. People, don't be deceived by the information readily available, find the truth yourselves.
ReplyDeleteFor Instance, an interesting fact.
One of the assasination attempt to rid of Taksin involved the use of time bomb with blast radius of 1 kilometer, capable of killing up to half the people within the vicinity, and was made to detonate to kill both the Ex-PM along with all people in the rush hour in a concentrated area in BKK. The culprit caught, given somekind of protection, and was bailed immidiately after the coup. He's even made a joke that even if he fail, Taksin will be rid of via coup any way.