Yingluck Shinawatra and jail time

[Norton]

Soon to be spotted shopping at The Emporium with a following of bowing waiing natives, including half the government

Yep. The times thay are a changin'.

[Bonglek]

Poor Yingluk. It's all catching up with her now. Seems she has already started doing her time in Harrods and similar stores around the globe.

This must be a really tough time for her making difficult fashion choices day after day for two years.

She has my sympathies. I intend to leave a post on her facebook account recommending flip flops , shorts and denim , timeless fashion to see her through her awful sentence.

[Pat]

All that hiso shopping and posing with expensive bags is a charade to be noticed. Of course they know they'll get photographed and in typical Thai fashion need to hammer home their wealth for face reasons

[S Landreth]

Thaksin and Yingluck show up in Tokyo

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/tha...ck-show-tokyo/ - https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASL3Y62CQL3YUHBI028.html

[S Landreth]

Yingluck and Thaksin in Japan to attend event

TOKYO: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin, both fugitives forced to live abroad, arrived in Japan on Thursday.

Yingluck and Thaksin are set to stay in Japan through Sunday before travelling to China, a person close to them said. It is their second visit this year following an earlier one in February.

Former Japanese politician Hajime Ishii, an acquaintance of the siblings, invited them to an event in Tokyo to celebrate the publication of his new book. They were introduced on stage and photographed with other guests but declined to make any comment to the media.

Yingluck was last year sentenced in absentia by the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions to five years in prison for negligence in handling a rice subsidy project that resulted in massive losses to state coffers. She fled the country last August ahead of the verdict and is believed to be applying for political asylum in Britain.

Thaksin, who was ousted as prime minister in a military coup in 2006, also fled abroad in 2008 to avoid a corruption conviction. He lives in self-imposed exile in Dubai.: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/pol...o-attend-event

[S Landreth]

DPM Prawit says officials are still pursuing Thaksin and Yingluck

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dpm...ksin-yingluck/

[Mid]

Yingluck sneaked out of the country

englishnews

[S Landreth]

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/pol...r-visa-from-uk

BBC Thai: https://www.bbc.com/thai/thailand-44276433

[S Landreth]

Cops chasing tails in hunt for Yingluck

Deputy national police chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul said Thursday it would be harder to track fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra if she has obtained a UK visa, as reported by the media.

Pol Gen Srivara was responding to Thai media reports quoting an article by the BBC that claimed Yingluck has been granted a 10-year UK visa.

However he stressed that the Royal Thai Police (RTP) has yet to receive any official conformation of the reports.

He said the RTP's foreign affairs division has been assigned to send a formal letter of inquiry to the British embassy in Thailand on the matter.

As for some photos that surfaced recently showing Yingluck allegedly in the US with her elder brother Thaksin, another fugitive former premier who was ousted from power, the police are still trying to verify the date on which the pictures were taken, he said.

If they are proven to be recent the police will move to determine which of her several passports she used to travel to the US, he added.

The RTP has been working closely with the Interpol to track down Yingluck, who fled the country in August 2017.

This occurred days if not not hours before the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions' ruled against her in a negligence of duty case relating to her government's rice-pledging scheme, which incurred hundreds of billions of baht in losses.

She was later sentenced in absentia to five years behind bars.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Busadee Santipitaks said she only learnt about the photos from media reports. They were reportedly snapped at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

After the BBC story broke, Ms Busadee said on Monday the ministry has no further information about that either.

BBC Thai, whose editor is based in London, reported that Yingluck has received a 10-year visa and will be allowed to stay in the UK for up to six months at a time. The editor cited "a source close to Yingluck", whose name was withheld.

The media said she is now using a passport issued by a European country.: https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/pol...t-for-yingluck

[Norton]

The last thing the junta wants is either of the Shinawatras back in Thailand.
All this "tail chasing" is a ploy to give the public the impression they are in hot pursuit of these evil criminals.

[S Landreth]

The last thing the junta wants is either of the Shinawatras back in Thailand.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gen...-in-washington

[sabang]

Go to a friendly country (UK) and claim/ask for political asylum (because the courts found me guilty) and receive a 10 year tourist visa? That is embarrassing to say the least.

On the contrary- had she applied for and (inevitably) been granted an asylum seekers visa she would not be able to leave the UK, ie travel, for a considerable period of time. She got exactly what she wanted, the only 'restriction' being that her maximum stay in the UK for one continuous period is 6 months. I don't think a lady of Yingluck's mettle will find it too much of an inconvenience to pop over to Paris for a couple of days and buy some Hermes bags, or perhaps another mine in Africa.

As for the publicity aspect, I think you're half right. Sure, the pro-democracy people want you/us to know the Shins are out there living the high life, very much alive, active and aware. Nothing the dictators can do about it. So why not rub it in, e'hhh. I think they call that schadenfreude.

But you've also got that contingent with bitter, twisted faces- spluttering into their noodle soup in impotent rage. These rubes actually believed the NCPO & associated parties when they said they were on the hunt for Yingluck, and bringing her back to Thailand was both a priority, and achievable. Sucker born every minute e'hhh- of course the opposite was the case, always. As indeed we've been saying all along. Lets be honest: Yellow shirt = Sucker. They've been shills from the beginning, as I suspect most realise now. These are many of the same people who naively believed this whole 'Thing' was really about fighting Corruption, Transparency & Accountability, and true Democracy. I feel sorry for them actually (vote for the "Future Forward Party" next time- and await the next military 'crackdown'.)

So here is the sad fact laid bare for those shills- the "Sceptre of Shinawatra" will hang over the next election, just like the one before that (cancelled), the one before that, before that, and so on. Frankly, how could it be otherwise.

[Mid]

Frankly, how could it be otherwise.

By allowing the democratic process to occur .

[Guest]

By allowing the democratic process to occur .

Yepper, one caveat; so called democratic process often turns 'Mob Rule' or worse 'Fascist State-ism'.

Remember Hilter was duly elected by the people.

The state should always be subservient to 'individual sovereignty', not the other way around..

The state should serve the individual...

[S Landreth]

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ncp...vements-watch/