Thursday 16 April 2009

Thaksin granted Nicaragua passport

Thailand’s former leader Thaksin Shinawatra now has a Nicaraguan passport, complicating efforts to extradite him as Thai authorities pressed ahead Thursday with a search for his supporters accused of leading violent riots in Bangkok.

The Nicaraguan government announced late Wednesday it had named Thaksin a “Nicaraguan ambassador on a special mission” to bring investment to the Central American country and issued him a passport in January.

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