PUBLISHED: 17 Oct 2024 at 11: 15
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra peacefully submitted a report to the Criminal Court on Thursday regarding his lese-majeste event.
The 75-year-old tycoon arrived at the courtroom on Ratchadaphisek Road without giving any prior notice, according to a cause, and reportedly spent about 10 days there.
Following his release on parole of 500, 000 baht, the judge ordered Thaksin to report quarterly. He did not request permission to leave Thailand during this visit because he had a prior demand rejected in July for travel overseas.
In a 2015 meeting with the North Korean magazine Chosun Ilbo, Thaksin claimed that senior council members supported the revolution that resurrected Yingluck Shinawatra and his younger sister. He was even charged with machine murder in addition to the der guess under Section 112 of the Criminal Code because the meeting was posted online.
The next hearing is scheduled for July of next year according to the jury.
After 15 times in self-imposed captivity, Thaksin returned to the state on August 22 next year. He was taken to the Supreme Court that evening, where he received a three-year prison sentence. That restraining order was afterwards reduced to a year by aristocratic mercy.
Due to his neck pain, hypertension, and lower blood oxygen levels, doctors decided to transfer him to the Police General Hospital on his first day at Bangkok Remand Prison.
Within a 120-day glass up until December 22, Thaksin was officially permitted to get treatment outside of prison, but the Department of Corrections granted him permission to stay in the hospital after that.
On February 18, Thaksin was granted a parole and released from the hospital.
The former telecom tycoon’s one-year jail name was officially overturned on August 31.