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TOKYO: Thailand’s army-appointed premier said
Tuesday that a graft probe into his ousted predecessor Thaksin
Shinawatra could wrap up as soon as this month and was confident it
would “pin him down.”
Thai prosecutors last month
charged Thaksin’s wife with tax evasion and Tuesday threatened his
children. But they have yet to charge Thaksin himself for graft, one
of the main reasons the army gave for removing him in September.
“I can say that we are quite
closing in on the final chapter of Mr. Thaksin’s future,”
Surayud told a news conference in Tokyo.
“We have all the evidence and I
think the investigation . . . will be able to pin him down this
time,” Surayud said.
The junta chief was in Tokyo to
ink an FTA with Japan.
--AFP
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