Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has denied that Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, who was removed as Immigration Bureau commissioner in 2019, is being reinstated to an active post at the Royal Thai Police (RTP).
Instead, a source said his transfer back to the RTP might be to an inactive position.
Gen Prayut dismissed media reports that he signed a reinstatement order for the senior officer who goes by the nickname “Big Joke”.
Pol Lt Gen Surachate headed the bureau until 2019, when he was suddenly shunted out of law enforcement to a civilian post of adviser at the Prime Minister’s Office.
The reason for his sudden fall from grace was never explained and remains a mystery.
Pol Lt Gen Surachate filed a lawsuit against Gen Prayut last year claiming he had been transferred…
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