Who was live-blogging the event?
I spent several hours at the court house today. Here are some images. As you’ll see, there were dozens of police, crowds of TV crews and photographers, and not many red shirt protesters (though many of them gathered elsewhere).
21:00 Court is still freezing the 30 billion baht, but it will be returned once settlement is made with interest. Didn't hear mention of any other pending cases to hold for that.
BP: The court's rationale is that Thaksin gets to keep all money he had before he become PM. Any increase in shares is part of the poisoned fruit analogy so the court takes all that.
20:48 For now, it seems the 30 billion Baht will not be seized - may be some interest on the 46 billion - but want to wait until the court stops talking to be 100% sure. Just worried they may say they will freeze that pending other cases unrelated to Shin...
20:42 It seems Thaksin and Potjaman will get the money back from before he became PM. Tentatively, they are seizing 46 billion out of 76 billion and add interest. The question of the 30 billion of when Thaksin was PM is a little unclear yet as the court is still going.
20:35 Court says coup order gives authority to seize the money. Court says they can seize all the money belonging to Thaksin and Pojaman. Now, on whether they were unusually rich.
20:30 As already stated Thaksin was directly involved in the EXIM bank loan (5) and excise tax (1) so basically he is screwed on this part. Now, for the other two issues, namely (2) and (4). The majority of the court says Thaksin abused his authority as PM. So how much they will seize?
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