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Pojaman, 50, her brother Bannaphot Damapong and her secretary Pennapa Honghern were found guilty of evading $16.3 million in taxes and providing false testimony in relation to a 1997 transfer of 4.5 million shares in Shin Corporation, the telecommunications conglomerate formerly owned by Thaksin and his family. Pojaman and the other defendants were released before the morning was over on $149,000 bail apiece. Neither she nor Thaksin immediately commented on the verdict, but it is expected she will appeal...
...international notoriety when 78 people died in police custody after being arrested in Oct. 2004. Opponents condemn Thaksin's placement of relatives in key positions-his cousin, General Chaisit Shinawatra, was first made army chief and then the military's supreme commander, and his brother-in-law Priawpan Damapong serves as deputy chief of the national police. And long-running allegations of corruption in a contract to supply baggage scanners at Bangkok's new airport continue to haunt the government. The then transportation minister, Suriya Jungrungreangkit (who now holds the industry portfolio), denied any impropriety by officials...
...lofty political heights. He attributes his political successes to his early business failures. After graduating from the Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy?he says he attended the military academy and then the police academy because he didn't want to attend a co-ed engineering school?he married Pojarmarn Damapong, the daughter of a police general. Along with his new bride, he moved to the United States, enrolling in a doctoral program at Sam Houston State University in Texas. The future Prime Minister earned his tuition working behind the counter of a Kentucky Fried Chicken while his wife baby...
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