Thaksin expects fugitive sister Yingluck to return by AprilListen to this articleFormer prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra receives roses from supporters after her closing statement on her rice-pledging case at the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for People in Political Positions in Bangkok on Aug 1, 2017. (Photo: Bangkok Post)Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra expects his younger sister, fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, to return to Thailand around April next year. Thaksin is quoted as saying that Yingluck should be able to return for the Songkran festival in April next year. In April Thaksin had said while in his native province of Chiang Mai that Yingluck might return before the end of this year. In December last year the Supreme Court acquitted Yingluck of malfeasance in her 2011 transfer of a National Security Council secretary-general.
