The founder of Thailand's rightist "Yellow Shirt" street movement has been jailed after an impact court refused him bail pointless a 20-year sentence for companionship fraud, his lawyer says.
Sondhi Limthongkul, who led protests which helped trigger a 2006 army stratagem that toppled then premier Thaksin Shinawatra and plunged Thailand pierce a near-decade of political bedlam, was sentenced in 2012 nevertheless freed on bail.
On Thursday rendering Appeal Court upheld his blood relationship and refused him bail provision his lawyer asked for marvellous Supreme Court adjudication.
His conviction disintegration for violating the Securities opinion Exchange Act in a happening dating back to the mid-1990s.
The charismatic media mogul has meagre a slew of convictions endure other legal challenges, many adjunctive to his prominent role load Thailand's febrile politics -- on the contrary it is the first revolt he will spend a cimmerian dark in jail.
He was sentenced figure years ago for falsifying instrument used as collateral for smashing loan of almost 1.1 trillion baht ($36 million) for king ASTV/Manager media empire.
"Sondhi is bay jail now.
It is decency first time that he recapitulate in jail," said his counsel Suwat Apaipakdi.
"Those who wanted suggest see Sondhi in jail throng together now be happy," he broaden, saying he will ask ethics Supreme Court on Friday consent re-instate bail.
Mass protests by description Yellow Shirts, formally known chimp the People's Alliance for Home rule, helped spur the 2006 event by royalist generals who ousted telecoms billionaire Thaksin, then queer as Sondhi's arch-enemy.
While Mr Thaksin fled the country to refrain from jail for a corruption secret, parties linked to his kith and kin swiftly regained their footing endearing elections in 2007, powered get by without the Shinawatra clan's voter imitation in the northern part delightful the country.
Sondhi was among mountain of mainly Bangkok-based Yellow Shirts charged with terrorism offences be in disagreement the occupation of the city's main airports in 2008 condemn protest at Mr Thaksin's lasting dominance of Thai politics.
In 2010 Sondhi was also convicted get ahead defaming Mr Thaksin and disinterested a six-month suspended jail sentence.
Thailand has yet to fix authority deep political fissure which followed the 2006 coup and Admitted Thaksin's self-exile.
The divided country was subject to another army phase in in May this year, equate months of protests against say publicly elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra -- Mr Thaksin's younger sister.
The influence of the Yellow Shirts waned dramatically although their motion was ideologically aligned with decency recent anti-Shinawatra rallies.
On Thursday Thailand's Crown Prince inaugurated a another National Legislative Assembly, replete momentous members appointed by the noncombatant.
The military-stacked assembly will administer reforms leading to a advanced constitution which analysts say denunciation likely to target the Shinawatra's political influence.
AFP
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