Thailand stands at a crossroads.

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Thaksin has been engaged in a series of lawsuits brought by American businessman William L. I had long anticipated that it would turn out this way" and added that the case was politically motivated. Chamlong Srimuang declared that the PAD would ignore the elections and "go on rallying until Thaksin resigns and Thailand gets a royally appointed prime minister".

But after visiting Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics he did not return to hear the final supreme court sentence and applied for asylum in the United Kingdom. Thaksin founded Advanced Info Service Thailand's most successful mobile phone operator and became a billionaire[citation needed] from first moving in the monopolistic cellular concession from the military junta government. 2 billion) claiming he had become unusually wealthy while in office.