Germany investigating Thaksin's illegal visa
- Published: 9/06/2009 at 03:59 PM
- Online news: Politics
Germany blacklisted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra in December last year, but he was later illegally issued a residence visa, the foreign minister's secretary Chawanon Intarakomalsut said on Tuesday.
The German government was investigating who issued Thaksin the residency permit , he said.
Thaksin had no right to it as he had already been blacklisted. The German government was also investigating Thaksin's activities during his subsequent visits to the country, Mr Chawanon said.
"The German government has given an undertaking that neither it nor the EU government will interfere in the internal matters of other countries and will not allow anyone to use their countries as a base to attack other countries," he sad.
The Munich newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that Thaksin had obtained a 90-day visit to Germany last northern summer.
Then, on Dec 29 last year, he obtained a one-year residency permit in Bonn, where he picked it up in person. It also said that the permit was cancelled on Berlin's instructions on May 28.
The newspaper said that the discovery that a Bonn immigration office had issued Thaksin a permit triggered interagency suspicions in the German federal government.
Neither the Foreign MInistry nor the BND, the German goivernment's foreign intelligence service, had known about the permit.
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