Billionaire former prime minister faces a potential jail term on corruption charges if he returns home.
Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra plans to return home on August 10 after 15 years in self-imposed exile, his daughter has said.
The announcement on Wednesday came amid a prolonged political crisis in Thailand following a general election in May.
Thaksin, 74, was twice elected prime minister, but toppled in a military coup in 2006. He fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid a jail sentence for corruption that he claimed was politically motivated. He has been living in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
“I can’t believe what I am about to write. Dad is coming back on Aug 10 at Don Meung airport,” his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra wrote on her official Facebook page on Wednesday.
“My heart and everyone in our family feel overwhelmed, happy and worried, but we…
