PUBLISHED : 7 Aug 2023 at 04:30
NEWSPAPER SECTION: News
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his younger sister Yingluck attended Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s birthday party in Cambodia on Saturday, according to Cambodian media outlets.
Fresh News and The Phnom Penh Post reported yesterday that Thaksin and Yingluck were at Hun Sen’s 71st birthday party in Ta Khmao, Cambodia, staying in the country one night to attend the event.
On Saturday, Thaksin, 74, announced he had to postpone his return to Thailand from Aug 10 for about two weeks pending medical checkups.
The fugitive former prime minister has been in self-imposed exile since being toppled by a coup in September 2006.
He returned briefly in 2008 and left the country in the same year shortly before the Supreme Court handed him a jail term for conflict of interest while prime minister.
He faced other prosecutions and Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam recently said the three final verdicts had resulted in a combined jail term of 10 years for the founder of now-dissolved Thai Rak Thai.
His daughter Paetongtarn is a prime ministerial candidate for the Pheu Thai Party that is currently trying to form a new government after the May 14 general election.
His sister Yingluck, herself a former PM, left the country in 2017 shortly before the Supreme Court sentenced her to five years in jail for failing to halt her government’s corruption-plagued rice-pledging scheme. agencies