In his final months in self-imposed exile avoiding jail, Thailand's billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared his time as a fugitive was over and he was ready to face the music. "I want permission," the tycoon said on social media last May. "It has been 17 years that I have been separated from my family. I am old." It.
In his final months in self-imposed exile avoiding jail, Thailand s billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared his time as a fugitive was over and he was ready to face the. -February 19, 2024 at 05:12 am EST
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Born in Chiang Mai in 1949, Thaksin is the great grandson of Chinese migrants. - Thaksin ran several failed businesses with his wife before getting his break in the 1980s leasing computers to the police. - His family's business empire thrived on government concessions while he was premier from 2001-2006, stoking public anger, including the tax-free $1.9 billion sale of its 49% stake in Shin Corp to a Singapore state firm.