BANGKOK: Prosecutors in Thailand will conduct further investigations into whether former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra broke a royal defamation law, they said on Monday, a day after the billionaire's release on parole in a separate graft case.

The former Manchester City owner is one of the most divisive figures in modern Thai history, loved by millions of rural voters for his populist policies but opposed by the royalist and pro-military establishment.

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