August 25, 2008
Bangkok - The prosecutors today asked the Supreme Court to decide whether frozen 2.2-billion-dollar money of the ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra’s family could be confiscated or not.
About 94 boxes of evidence arrived at the Bangkok courthouse by truck, all aiming to prove that the entrepreneur-turned-politician was "unusually rich," according to AFP.
"We have come to ask the court to issue an order to confiscate this wealth," said Sakesan Bangsomboon, director general of the special litigation division at the attorney general's office.
A team of judges will be set up by the court to decide whether they will take the case or not.
However, no deadline was given.
Seized 76 billion baht belonging to the ousted prime minister and his family members were in Thai bank accounts.
Thaksin and his wife Pojaman fled to the United Kingdom and failed to appear before the Supreme Court on August 11.
