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Thai junta releases four Thaksin aides.
(From AFX Europe (Focus))
BANGKOK (XFN-ASIA) - Thailand's junta leader said the military has released four top aides to deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who had been held since the Sept 19 coup.
"They have already been freed this morning," coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin told reporters when asked about the fate of the four senior politicians.
"It is the police's responsibility to take care of them," he added.
The three were released the day after the junta strengthened a panel investigating graft allegations against Thaksin and members of his government.
Thaksin's deputy Chidchai Vanasathidya and Prommin Lertsuridej, the secretary to the premier, were detained a day after the coup and were held at a military guesthouse on the northern outskirts ...
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