(UPDATE) BANGKOK — Thai prosecutors on Tuesday formally indicted influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra under the Southeast Asian kingdom's strict royal insult laws over comments he made nearly a decade ago.
The case against the 74-year-old billionaire, twice elected premier and ousted in a 2006 military coup, is one of four before the courts that could trigger fresh political instability in the putsch-prone country.
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