This ruling is the latest blow for the once-unstoppable Shinawatra family, just days after Thaksin’s daughter was removed as prime minister
The court would take the 76-year-old into custody, a reporter who attended the verdict said.
On return from 15 years of self-imposed exile in 2023, Thaksin spent only a few hours in prison before being transferred to hospital complaining of heart trouble and chest pains, prompting widespread scepticism and public outrage.
The five-judge bench said on Tuesday that the responsibility for Thaksin’s lengthy stay in hospital did not solely lie with the doctors and that the polarising billionaire intentionally prolonged his hospital stay.
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