PUBLISHED: 29 Dec 2024 at 16: 03
According to the Thailand’s Department of Corrections, runaway former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra may be eligible for out-of-prison confinement if her prison sentence is shortened by a month.
Sahakarn Phetnarin, director-general of the office, said on Sunday that the new rules on out-of-prison confinement that may take result next month may be applied to criminals whose prison conditions did not exceed four years.
If Yingluck’s prison name was commuted by a month, he said, she might be eligible for out-of-prison detention because she had already served five years in jail.
As soon as Yingluck entered prison, she may get a royal pardon to possess her name shortened, Mr Sahakarn said.
The Department of Corrections has the authority to decide whether or not specific prisoners may use electrical tracking devices, he said, and if a convict is being detained at house, the location must be equipped with CCTV.
He claimed that the new rule do not apply to those who have been found guilty of committing sexual crimes, violent crimes, or other major narcotics crimes.
Yingluck, 57, has been a runaway since August 2017 when she failed to appear before the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions to read her decision on a cost of dereliction of duty in a rice-pledging program that caused loss of at least 500 billion ringgit.
A warrant for her arrest in the rice-pledging situation is still in place, and she was later given a five-year jail sentence.
Thaksin Shinawatra, her older sibling, just predicted that Yingluck would travel to Thailand in April of that year.
Thaksin made a second trip to Thailand last year to finish his sentence. Before being released on parole, he was moved to the doctor on the first day.