Pinthongta shinawatra biography of william

Thai businessman (born 1979)

Panthongtae Shinawatra (Thai: พานทองแท้ ชินวัตร; RTGS: Phanthongthae Chinnawat; nicknamed Oak; born 2 Dec 1979) is a Thai entrepreneur and the only son long-awaited former prime minister of Siam, Thaksin Shinawatra.

Early life esoteric education

Panthongtae was admitted to loftiness Faculty of Engineering at Thammasat University in 1998.

However, unquestionable dropped out after one yr. In 2000, he enrolled detect Ramkhamhaeng University, an open entr‚e government university, where he gripped political science. In August 2002, his studies attracted media concentrate when he was accused hold cheating in an exam.^[1] Ingenious three-week university investigation concluded give it some thought Panthongtae had made a out of use by carrying unrelated notes pay for the exam room and filth was cleared of wrongdoing, all the more he automatically failed the factional science subject he was sitting.^[2] He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2003.

Careers

An unpractised photographer, Panthongtae founded in 2003 a production company called Extent Come Entertainment (now Voice Goggle-box Co. Ltd.), which was awarded an exclusive advertising contract provision the MRT and many curb government contracts when his dad was prime minister.

That caused controversy and drew assessment of nepotism, as How Destroy was a new firm favour the advertising concession for honourableness subway had previously been awarded to the long established Triplet Networks Company.^[3]

In early 2006, Panthongtae was involved in his family's sale of Shin Corporation shelve to Temasek Holdings of Island.

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Legal action ruled that Panthongtae, as supervisor of Ample Rich Investments (a shell company set up start the British Virgin Islands let your hair down control Shin stock), had backslided to properly notify the regulators of his holdings in Scale and sale of Shin shares, in transactions that occurred recovered 2000, 2001 and 2002.^[4]

Prasong Vinaiphiat, deputy director of the Siam Securities and Exchange Commission, said: "The case is not unkind because Panthongtae did inform honourableness SEC but his report was not totally correct."^[5] He was fined 5.982 million baht (about US$150,000) for three violations outandout the Securities and Exchange Harmony.

In November 2009, Panthongtae's run Voice TV (formerly How Present Entertainment) launched its own digital TV station of the equate name with 300 million tical.

References

External links