Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, was arrested and was taken to court, and jailed after he landed in Thailand after 15 years in self-imposed exile.
According to Thailand’s Khaosod Media and Thai PBS, On Tuesday, Thaskin boarded a private plane in Singapore and landed at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport briefly after 9 am (02:00 GMT).
On his arrival, Thaksin paid respect to the King and shortly afterward he was taken in police custody to the Supreme Court where he was arrested for misuse of authority and several other outstanding crimes, which he has defined as politically motivated.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thaskin’s daughter, posted on her Instagram, “Welcome back to Thailand daddy.”
After reached at his home soil, Thaksin was taken to Bangkok prison, with the release of the Supreme Court’s statement saying he serve eight years in prison.
Former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin came to power in 2001. He was returned in a landslide five years later but, in September 2006, when Thaksin was in New York readying to address the United Nations, the military took control.
He was also charged with severe human rights misuse amid a fierce dispute in the nation’s mostly Muslim southern provinces, and a ‘drugs war’ that killed thousands, was later sentenced to abuse of control and went into exile in 2008, spending most of his time in Dubai.
