He has Returned

[Doodoo]

Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra returns to a politically divided Thailand after 15 years of self-exile

Here we go.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-pm-thaksi ... p_catchall

[deankham]

Is he going to prison or to be the next PM (well PM puppet master)....let's see

[Doodoo]

Read the news He is off to Jail
https://news.yahoo.com/thakshin-shinawa ... p_catchall

[747man]

Is he going to prison or to be the next PM (well PM puppet master)....let's see

Yeah but Only until he gets a Royal Pardon from a Certain Individual....

[tamada]

Is he going to prison or to be the next PM (well PM puppet master)....let's see

Yeah but Only until he gets a Royal Pardon from a Certain Individual....

And?

[FrazeeDK]

Not sure how often the Royal Pardon list is published. New Years's?? I'm sure Taksin will apply. Perhaps the first application will bet him a reduced sentence, then the next release. Remember the patricarch of the Pattaya Khunngpleum family, Khmmnan Poh. who'd been convicted of 1st degree murder in absentia after he jumped bond.. He was finally caught, put in Bangkok Remand Prison and due to medical issues released within 24 hours to a VIP suite in Chon Buri Hospital... He eventually died there..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somchai_Khunpluem No, he didn't get a pardon, but he sure got a pretty mild house arrest for the crime..

[Doodoo]

Thaksin: Former Thai PM's prison sentence reduced to a year

https://aseannow.com/topic/1305310-thak ... to-a-year/

[tamada]

He'll be out and home with his grandkids for Christmas.

Welcome home Tony.

[deankham]

I'm wearimg my 'thaksin' watch to celebrate....not the million bucks Patek Phillipe but the Omega-Swatch Mission to Mars

[Whistler]

any chance this was negotiated before his return? Just asking.

[jackspratt]

I must admit that when I first read this, then new, OP from Dd back in August, I was expecting an explosive story which was aimed at the couple of strongly religious members of UM.

Something which had been predicted, and swallowed by the faithful, for thousands of years.

Alas, it turned out to be only about a conniving grifter.

[tamada]

You mean Thailand's first democratically elected conniving grifter? A grifter among grifters? The grifter daddy? The grifterino? And after this wonderfully stage-managed return from being the shadowy, exiled éminence grise, to in-your-face domestic relevance, the quintessential grifter par excellence?