BANGKOK (Reuters) - The only son of fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been formally charged with money-laundering, the Department of Special Investigations told Reuters on Wednesday.
Panthongtae Shinawatra is accused of receiving a 10 million baht (£227,673) cheque in 2004 related to an earlier corruption case involving 9.9 billion baht (£224 million) of fraudulent loans extended by the state-owned Krungthai Bank when his father was prime minister.
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