Financial transactions involving 106 bank or stock accounts associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be halted if found to be linked to anti-government protesters, the National Security Council (NSC) said on Sunday.
The accounts and assets — held by associates, family members and businesses linked to the exiled multi-millionaire — will be monitored and frozen if found linked to the protest movement.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand, asset management, insurance firms and commercial banks are prohibited from facilitating any such transactions, Tawil Pliensri, secretary-general of the NSC said in a televised address.
The government says the former Prime Minister Thaksin, who is currently believed to be in Montenegro, evading a two-year jail term for graft, is the de facto leader and main financier of the red-shirted protesters occupying parts of Bangkok.
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‘SC must summon Pervez’
Age Correspondent
ISLAMABAD
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf — the architect of the now defunct National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) — should also face accountability.
“The federal law minister will present the government’s viewpoint before the Supreme Court when he appears in the court,” Mr Gilani said adding, “It would have been better if the architect of the NRO had also been called for his version.”
The Supreme Court has summoned law minister Babar Awan on May 25 to ask him why the government has failed to implement the court’s directives to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The cases against Mr Zardari and others were withdrawn under the NRO, promulgated in 2007 by Mr Musharraf. The Supreme Court has struck down the NRO terming it illegal and unconstitutional.