Yingluk appointed head of Shantou port in China.
With all the kow-towing to the Chinese, I guess the government loves this development:
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019 ... hina-port/
Yingluk appointed head of Shantou port in China
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She has a Cambodian passport. A wonderful slap to the Junta.
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Former PM Yingluck reported to have Cambodian passport
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politi ... n-passport
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is the holder of a Cambodian passport, the South China Morning Post has learned, adding weight to the theory she fled Thailand in 2017 via Cambodia, despite strenuous denials by Phnom Penh.
Corporate filings in Hong Kong revealed Yingluck, 51, had used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of PT Corporation Co, a firm incorporated in the city on Aug 24 last year, almost a year to the day after she went into self-imposed exile ahead of a sentence for criminal negligence.
The filings also contradict the claims by the Cambodian government that it had not issued any travel papers to her when she left her country under mysterious circumstances, while supposedly under the 24-hour surveillance by the military government. Yingluck has since been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for mishandling rice subsidies, charges she rejected as political persecution.
The Hong Kong company’s incorporation is among a set of the first publicly available documents revealing her business dealings after avoiding the limelight since fleeing Thailand.
It is not clear what business the company is in. But just four months after she set up the company, Yingluck was appointed chairwoman of Shantou International Container Terminals, a Guangdong-based port operator, other documents show.
“If it is an official [Cambodian] passport, the question would be, how does someone like Yingluck get the passport?” said Chong Ja Ian, a professor of foreign policy at the National University of Singapore.
But Mr Chong said it made sense for her to have acquired it because Cambodia was an “easy option … just across the border”.
“If you want to travel relatively inconspicuously, having a passport such as a Cambodian one would be easy in that sense,” Mr Chong said. “Clearly as neighbours, this could become an issue of contention.” (continues below)
Yingluck Shinawatra used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of P.T. Corporation Company. (Photo from Companies Registry via South China Morning Post)
Around the time Yingluck fled, the Phnom Penh Post quoted an official from Cambodia’s Passport Department as saying: “Ms Yingluck [is] Thai, she is not Cambodian, so I don’t issue a passport to foreigners.”
The Cambodian Ministry of Interior’s Immigration Department also said then it had no reports that Yingluck, who is the prime minister from 2011 to 2014, had departed for Singapore through Cambodia.
The foreign ministries of Thailand and Cambodia did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
Cambodia is a close ally of China, with deep economic and military links. Yingluck and her brother Thaksin -- also a former prime minister -- were in China over the weekend to visit their ancestral home in Fengshun township in Guangdong.
Yingluck’s registration of the Hong Kong company also revealed the extent of the family network. While she is the sole director, another company with the exact same name, though with a Bangkok address, was listed as the Hong Kong firm’s founding member.
Pintongta Shinawatra Kunakornwong, and Paetongtarn, daughters of Thaksin, are the major shareholders of a Thai company called PT Corporation Co, according to disclosures from a separate, Bangkok-listed company.
When the South China Morning Post visited the company’s registered address at the K11 Atelier in Tsim Sha Tsui, an upscale 66-storey office building, the office was occupied by a company called Pacific International Capital. One of its directors is Chen Huaidan, formerly known as Celine Tang.
Staff at the company said they did not know anything about PT Corporation, or its connection with Yingluck. “I don’t know why you are coming to us about this company,” a member of staff said. Another company employee later declined over the phone to comment on the relationship.
Ms Chen is also managing director of a Singapore-listed property company, SingHaiyi Group, which did not respond to inquiries on Wednesday.
According to SingHaiyi Group’s website, Ms Chen worked as a judicial officer in a district court in Shantou before 1995. She has a bachelor’s degree from the People’s Public Security University of China.
She and her husband, Gordon Tang Yigang, were believed to be close to Yingluck, so much so that Yingluck registered her residential address as a luxurious house on The Peak that was bought by the couple for HK$250 million in 2012, according to corporate filings and records from the Land Registry.
The couple have been previously reported to have close ties with American politicians, and donated US$1.3 million via a US-registered company to support Jeb Bush, son of former president George HW Bush, for his presidential campaign in 2016, according to election financial data provided by a US government agency.
PT Corporation Co’s secretary is HYL Secretarial Services, incorporated in the same month as the former.
HYL’s director, Alexander Leung Ho-yin, a lawyer, declined in a Wednesday phone interview to talk about PT Corporation Co’s business dealings. He said he had been informed that PT Corporation Co would be switching to yet another secretarial company. It would be the second time it had done so, according to records.
Yingluck took over the Shantou company after Hutchison Port Holdings divested its 70% stake, held via a Hong Kong company called Hutchison Ports Shantou, last December.
On Wednesday, Hutchison Port said it had sold all its shares at an undisclosed price to a Singaporean investor whom it did not name. A spokesman did not say when the deal was made, beyond commenting that it was beyond the company’s control who the investor brought in after the shares were sold.
The other 30% of shares are held by the Shantou arm of China Merchants Port Group. Corporate filings showed Ms Chen was appointed director of Hutchison Ports Shantou on Nov 11, 2018, with staff from Singapore, mainland China, and three Hong Kong ID card holders.
The filings also showed Thaksin was appointed director of a Hong Kong company called Planet Telecom (HK) Co Ltd in 2016.
Thaksin, 69, who is also in self-imposed exile after being overthrown in a military coup in 2006, registered with a Montenegro passport. His residential address is listed as being in Emirates Hill, an upscale district of Dubai, where he has been living for the past decade.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politi ... n-passport
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is the holder of a Cambodian passport, the South China Morning Post has learned, adding weight to the theory she fled Thailand in 2017 via Cambodia, despite strenuous denials by Phnom Penh.
Corporate filings in Hong Kong revealed Yingluck, 51, had used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of PT Corporation Co, a firm incorporated in the city on Aug 24 last year, almost a year to the day after she went into self-imposed exile ahead of a sentence for criminal negligence.
The filings also contradict the claims by the Cambodian government that it had not issued any travel papers to her when she left her country under mysterious circumstances, while supposedly under the 24-hour surveillance by the military government. Yingluck has since been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for mishandling rice subsidies, charges she rejected as political persecution.
The Hong Kong company’s incorporation is among a set of the first publicly available documents revealing her business dealings after avoiding the limelight since fleeing Thailand.
It is not clear what business the company is in. But just four months after she set up the company, Yingluck was appointed chairwoman of Shantou International Container Terminals, a Guangdong-based port operator, other documents show.
“If it is an official [Cambodian] passport, the question would be, how does someone like Yingluck get the passport?” said Chong Ja Ian, a professor of foreign policy at the National University of Singapore.
But Mr Chong said it made sense for her to have acquired it because Cambodia was an “easy option … just across the border”.
“If you want to travel relatively inconspicuously, having a passport such as a Cambodian one would be easy in that sense,” Mr Chong said. “Clearly as neighbours, this could become an issue of contention.” (continues below)
Yingluck Shinawatra used a Cambodian passport to register as the sole director of P.T. Corporation Company. (Photo from Companies Registry via South China Morning Post)
Around the time Yingluck fled, the Phnom Penh Post quoted an official from Cambodia’s Passport Department as saying: “Ms Yingluck [is] Thai, she is not Cambodian, so I don’t issue a passport to foreigners.”
The Cambodian Ministry of Interior’s Immigration Department also said then it had no reports that Yingluck, who is the prime minister from 2011 to 2014, had departed for Singapore through Cambodia.
The foreign ministries of Thailand and Cambodia did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
Cambodia is a close ally of China, with deep economic and military links. Yingluck and her brother Thaksin -- also a former prime minister -- were in China over the weekend to visit their ancestral home in Fengshun township in Guangdong.
Yingluck’s registration of the Hong Kong company also revealed the extent of the family network. While she is the sole director, another company with the exact same name, though with a Bangkok address, was listed as the Hong Kong firm’s founding member.
Pintongta Shinawatra Kunakornwong, and Paetongtarn, daughters of Thaksin, are the major shareholders of a Thai company called PT Corporation Co, according to disclosures from a separate, Bangkok-listed company.
When the South China Morning Post visited the company’s registered address at the K11 Atelier in Tsim Sha Tsui, an upscale 66-storey office building, the office was occupied by a company called Pacific International Capital. One of its directors is Chen Huaidan, formerly known as Celine Tang.
Staff at the company said they did not know anything about PT Corporation, or its connection with Yingluck. “I don’t know why you are coming to us about this company,” a member of staff said. Another company employee later declined over the phone to comment on the relationship.
Ms Chen is also managing director of a Singapore-listed property company, SingHaiyi Group, which did not respond to inquiries on Wednesday.
According to SingHaiyi Group’s website, Ms Chen worked as a judicial officer in a district court in Shantou before 1995. She has a bachelor’s degree from the People’s Public Security University of China.
She and her husband, Gordon Tang Yigang, were believed to be close to Yingluck, so much so that Yingluck registered her residential address as a luxurious house on The Peak that was bought by the couple for HK$250 million in 2012, according to corporate filings and records from the Land Registry.
The couple have been previously reported to have close ties with American politicians, and donated US$1.3 million via a US-registered company to support Jeb Bush, son of former president George HW Bush, for his presidential campaign in 2016, according to election financial data provided by a US government agency.
PT Corporation Co’s secretary is HYL Secretarial Services, incorporated in the same month as the former.
HYL’s director, Alexander Leung Ho-yin, a lawyer, declined in a Wednesday phone interview to talk about PT Corporation Co’s business dealings. He said he had been informed that PT Corporation Co would be switching to yet another secretarial company. It would be the second time it had done so, according to records.
Yingluck took over the Shantou company after Hutchison Port Holdings divested its 70% stake, held via a Hong Kong company called Hutchison Ports Shantou, last December.
On Wednesday, Hutchison Port said it had sold all its shares at an undisclosed price to a Singaporean investor whom it did not name. A spokesman did not say when the deal was made, beyond commenting that it was beyond the company’s control who the investor brought in after the shares were sold.
The other 30% of shares are held by the Shantou arm of China Merchants Port Group. Corporate filings showed Ms Chen was appointed director of Hutchison Ports Shantou on Nov 11, 2018, with staff from Singapore, mainland China, and three Hong Kong ID card holders.
The filings also showed Thaksin was appointed director of a Hong Kong company called Planet Telecom (HK) Co Ltd in 2016.
Thaksin, 69, who is also in self-imposed exile after being overthrown in a military coup in 2006, registered with a Montenegro passport. His residential address is listed as being in Emirates Hill, an upscale district of Dubai, where he has been living for the past decade.
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Re: Yingluk appointed head of Shantou port in China
Wrong...!!europtimiste wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:41 pm She has a Cambodian passport. A wonderful slap to the Junta.
The junta facilitated her "escape"...and probably ordered the Cambodian passport for her.
She was way too popular with the average Thai to be allowed to stay....let alone do prison time.
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Interesting side note about the Hong Kong Chinese couple who donated $1.3 Million to Jeb Bush's presidential campaign. I wonder how they and Jebbie hid it. I don't think that foreign contributions to US political campaigns are legal and no one person can donate that much money to a campaign.
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Bullshit, It's confirmed, she has a Cambodian passport and will escape prison.T.O.M. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:12 pmWrong...!!europtimiste wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:41 pm She has a Cambodian passport. A wonderful slap to the Junta.
The junta facilitated her "escape"...and probably ordered the Cambodian passport for her.
She was way too popular with the average Thai to be allowed to stay....let alone do prison time.
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Erm, I think that's exactly what he is saying?europtimiste wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:41 pmBullshit, It's confirmed, she has a Cambodian passport and will escape prison.T.O.M. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:12 pmWrong...!!europtimiste wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:41 pm She has a Cambodian passport. A wonderful slap to the Junta.
The junta facilitated her "escape"...and probably ordered the Cambodian passport for her.
She was way too popular with the average Thai to be allowed to stay....let alone do prison time.
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That's imagination, suppositions. Thaksin had very good relations to Hun Sen. He was even an adviser. That's the reason she got a Cambodian passport. Nothing to do with Junta order.caller wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 10:19 amErm, I think that's exactly what he is saying?europtimiste wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:41 pmBullshit, It's confirmed, she has a Cambodian passport and will escape prison.
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That's imagination and supposition as well! The truth is that no-one outside of a small circle of 'friends' knows the whole truth. But I would add my voice to the argument that the Junta were happy to see her go. And without doubt Thai's had at least some part to play in that, through negligence or otherwise.europtimiste wrote: ↑Thu Jan 10, 2019 11:49 amThat's imagination, suppositions. Thaksin had very good relations to Hun Sen. He was even an adviser. That's the reason she got a Cambodian passport. Nothing to do with Junta order.
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I kinda liked Yingluk. by all accounts, she is not that bright and in spite of 2 years at a US University, her Engish is quite basic. She was forced into the PM position by her family and did her best and did it with some style. I think she was a victim rather than a perp.