Alleged big-time embezzler and power abuser, former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, a convicted tax evader, have fled to UK where Thaksin owns Manchester City football club. It is not the first time UK gives aid and abet to foreign criminals as long as they made enough contribution to its economy. Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's most hated personalities wanted in Russia, Brazil, Holland and Switzerland for money-laundering, is a recent example of Britain turning a blind eye on justice when it promises a fat money return.
It will be interesting to watch how the Thaksin saga is going to unfold. As it goes, for the years to come we are most likely to be spotting the billionaire couple shopping in Harrod's, lecturing his footballers and chumming with British MP's.
P. S. UK just gave a safe passage yet to another dictator, ex-President Musharraf of Pakistan.
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