BANGKOK: The only son of fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been formally charged with money laundering, the Department of Special Investigations said.
Panthongtae Shinawatra is accused of receiving a 10 million baht (RM1.26mil) cheque in 2004 related to an earlier corruption case involving 9.9 billion baht (RM1.25bil) of fraudulent loans extended by the state-owned Krungthai Bank when his father was prime minister.
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