Detained Thai Spy Meets His Mother

Saturday, 28 November 2009 04:37 DAP-NEWS

(Posted by CAAI News Media)

The detained Thai engineer convicted by Cambodia Court of stealing fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Sinawatra’s flight plans on Friday met his mother, Simaluck Na Nakhon, at Prey Sar Prison on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for the first time since he was arrested by Cambodian authorities on November 12.

Simaluck Na Nakhon Panom met her son Sivarak for about 90 minutes, instead of the 60 minutes as normally allowed by the prison, Thai FM’s secretary Chawanont Indharakomarnsutr was quoted by Thai newspaper the Nation as saying.

Chawanot said he talked to Simaluck on the phone after she met her son. He said the Cambodian prison arranged a room of the prison for the meeting of Simaluck and her son.

The Cambodian Government on Friday last week confirmed that Thai workers at Cambodia Air Traffic Services (CATS) have not been fired, contrary to reports in the Thai press. Thai workers have been barred from entering technical rooms as this duty is responsibility of the Cambodian Government.

The confirmation comes after Thai newspapers as saying that the Royal Government of Cambodia fired 9 Thai workers at CATS. Thai media also made much of a Cambodia’s arrest of Sivarak Chutipong, 31. Phnom Penh Municipal Court has remanded the suspect in Prey Sar after charges of stealing fugitive former Thai Primer Minister Thaksin Sinawatra’s flight schedule during his 4-day trip to Cambodia on November 10, 2009.

“Khun Simaluck described the atmosphere of the meeting as being good. She gave her son medicine and asthma inhaler. She worried about him at first but now that she met him already and he had no problem,” Chawanont quoted the mother as saying.

Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Foreign Minister said that the ministry contacted to Thai embassy in Phnom Penh to allow his mother to meet her son at Prey Sor Prison.

Sivarak was arrested on November 11 in Phnom Penh for allegedly spying on flight plans of former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra who was visiting the Cambodian capital.

Chawanonot told reporters in Bangkok that Sivarak did not show any much worries, Chawanot said.

His mother will attend a court session on December 8 in Phnom Penh, he said, adding Sivarak reiterated that he did not do anything against the Cambodian laws as the information about Thaksin’s flight plans were not confidential.

The Thai man arrested made following Cambodia declared officially appointing Thaksin as Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen’s advisor and the government advisor on economic work.

The day following, Thai leaders recalled their ambassador to Phnom Penh, and then Cambodia did so.