Overview

• Televised images and party officials confirmed the 76-year-old landed at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport on Monday as security cordoned off the private jet terminal.
• The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division is set to rule Tuesday on whether his six months in hospital detention in 2023 should be credited as time served, a decision that could send him back to prison.
• Thaksin was sentenced to eight years for abuse of power and conflicts of interest, received a royal commutation to one year, and was paroled in February 2024 after six months spent entirely in a hospital VIP ward.
• He left Thailand on Sept. 4 for a medical trip that diverted to Dubai after delayed clearance scuppered a Singapore landing, then returned Sept. 8 pledging to attend the verdict in person.
• The review follows broader scrutiny that includes sequestered medical records, testimony from 20 witnesses, and medical council action suspending two doctors over false documentation, as his Pheu Thai movement loses power to new prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul.