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.
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Billionaire former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole after six months in detention, his first day of freedom in his homeland 15 years after fleeing in the wake of his overthrow in a military coup.