waerth Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Thaksin guilty in land case, gets 2-year imprisonment The Supreme Court Tuesday found former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty in the Ratchada land case. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail. Pojaman Shinawatra, his wife, was found not guilty and the court revoked arrest warrant against her. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086540 [color:brown]The buildup to the verdict:[/color] Supreme Court rules AEC has authority to probe land case http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086534 FIDF is state agency: Supreme Court http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086536 Supreme Court rules 6:3 to say Thaksin had authority over FIDF http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086538 Supreme Court rules 5:4 that Thaksin knew of land purchase by wife http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086539 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=131548 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 It will be interesting to see how this will develop. Don't think Mr. T had this envisioned. How will his visa/asylum application be handled now in the UK? All in all a fair call imho and well deserved, Mr. T did enough damage to this country during his 8 year reign and lined his pockets along the way. Is there hope for the Thai justice system after all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 extradition to Thailand? (if such a treaty exists) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 So then Pokemon can be the new PM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 She received 3 years in a previous verdict, didn't she? Mr. T's verdict was marginal, 5 to 4......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 No she was convicted in another case. So both of them are convicted fugitive criminals now! So the newspaper should address him as follows now: Ex-prime minister and convicted fugitive criminal Thaksin Shinawatra ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Nope, they will probably still use his police rank, much to the delight of Mac! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Unfortunately the bastards still got the land!!! Unbelievable: "The high court ruled to sanction the land transaction and dismissed the prosecution request to seize the plot." http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30086540 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SIAM RESPECTING THE EXTRADITION OF FUGITIVE CRIMINALS. Sign at Bangkok, March 4, 1911. (Ratifications exchanged at London, August 1, 1911.) His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the King of Siam, having judged it expedient, with a view to the better administration of justice and to the prevention of crime within their respective territories, that persons charged with or convicted of the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should under certain circumstances be reciprocally delivered up; the said High Contracting Parties have named as their plenipotentiaries to conclude a Treaty for this purpose, that is to say: His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: Arthur Peel, Esquire, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Bangkok, etc., And His Majesty the King of Siam: HRH Prince Devawongse Varoprakar, His Minister for Foreign Affairs, etc,. Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles: Article 1. The High Contracting Parties engage to deliver up to each other persons over whom they respectively exercise jurisdiction who, being accused or convicted of a crime or offence committed in the territory of the one Party, shall be found within the territory of the other Party, under the circumstances and conditions stated in the present Treaty. Article 2. The crimes or offences for which the extradition is to be granted are the following: 1. Murder, or attempt, or conspiracy to murder. 2. Manslaughter. 3. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Malicious wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm. 4. Counterfeiting or altering money, or uttering counterfeit or altered money. 5. Knowingly making any instrument, took, or engine adapted or intended for counterfeiting coin. 6. Forgery, counterfeiting, or altering or uttering what is forged or counterfeited, or altered. 7. Embezzlement or larceny. 8. Malicious injury to property, by explosives or otherwise, if the offence be indictable. 9. Obtaining money, goods, or valuable securities by false pretences. 10. Receiving money, valuable security, or other property, knowing the same to have been stolen, embezzled, or unlawfully obtained. 11. Crimes against bankruptcy law. 12. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any company made criminal by any law for the time being in force. 13. Perjury, or subornation of perjury. 14. Rape. 15. Carnal knowledge, or any attempt to have carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of puberty, according to the laws of the respective countries. 16. Indecent assault. 17. Procuring miscarriage, administering drugs, or using instruments with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman. 18. Abduction. 19. Child stealing. 20. Abandoning children, exposing or unlawfully detaining them. 21. Kidnapping and false imprisonment. 22. Burglary or housebreaking. 23. Arson. 24. Robbery with violence. 25. Any malicious act done with intent to endanger the safety of any person in a railway train. 26. Threats by letter or otherwise, with intent to extort. 27. Piracy by law of nations. 28. Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting or conspiring to do so. 29. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to destroy life, or do grievous bodily harm. 30. Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master. 31. Dealing in slaves in such a manner as to constitute a criminal offence against the laws of both States. Extradition is to be granted for participation in any of the aforesaid crimes, provided such participation be punishable by the laws of both contracting Parties. Extradition may also be granted at the discretion of the State applied to in respect of any other crime for which, according to the law of both of the contracting Parties for the time being in force, the grant can be made. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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