Police circulate arrest warrants for Thaksin and Pojaman

Saturday, August 16, 2008 by Editor


The Royal Thai Police on Thursday started distributing two arrest warrants for former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Khunying Pojaman.





Police circulate arrest warrants for Thaksin and Pojaman

The warrant for Thaksin has the statue of limitations for 15 years and the one for Pojaman is enforced for 10 years.

The Supreme Court issued the warrants on Monday after Thaksin and Pojaman jumped bails and failed to report themselves on the Ratchadapisek land case.

As the two fugitives have fled to London, the next step for police is to coordinate with the Office of the Attorney General to initiate the extradition request, Police spokesman Lt General Watcharaphol Prasanratchakit said.

Meanwhile Wichit Plangsrikul, a lawyer of Thaksin said the Royal Thai Police's distribution of the warrants across the country could be deemed as an abuse against the couple.

"The move is not suitable and might have broken the law because they deliberately defamed them. The police might have broken the law. The police did not need to do that because Thaksin had said he and his family would live in the United Kingdom,'' he said.

Wichit said Thaksin was not yet a convict because he had not been convicted by any court so he did not believe that the Attorney General could take recourse the extradition treaty to bring Thaksin back.

He said Thaksin had not yet sought exile in the United Kingdom but if he did he would cite the interference in the judiciary and his personal safety as the reason.

Thaksin had instructed him and his lawyers to pursue the libels cases against those involved in put him on the trial on graft charges and fight on his behalf in those cases.


Source: http://nationmultimedia.com/2008/08/14/politics/politics_30080547.php

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