Bangkok (TIP): Thailand’s billionaire ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra was released on parole on February 18 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.
The 74-year-old tycoon, whose family’s party is back in power, was granted parole despite having not spent a single night in prison for a sentence that had in August been commuted from eight years to one year by the country’s king. — Reuters
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