PUBLISHED: 29 Dec 2024 at 16: 03
If Yingluck Shinawatra’s jail term is reduced by one year, claims Thailand’s director of changes, she may be eligible for extradition to prison.
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 expression was commuted by a month, he said, she might be eligible for out-of-prison confinement 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 inmates should use digital monitoring devices, he said, and a prison may be equipped with CCTV if they are to be detained at home.
He claimed that those who have been found guilty of a physical offence, violent offense, or major narcotics crime cannot be subject to the new regulation.
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 imprisonment in the rice-pledging case is still in place, and she was later given a five-year jail sentence.
Her older brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, just stated that he anticipated Yingluck’s returning to Thailand in April of next year.
Thaksin re-enter Thailand last year to finish his sentence. Prior to his parole, he was taken to the hospital for the first day.