It was the second time he had required immediate medical treatment after the then- Central Investigation Bureau commissioner was jailed in October and discharged from the service over a corruption scandal. 
	Pongpat was admitted to the Central Chest Institute of Thailand on December 27 and underwent a balloon angioplasty before he was sent back to the prison hospital the day after and returned to his cell on Tuesday. 
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Pongpat back in prison after undergoing surgery

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Pongpat back in prison after undergoing surgery

Former crime-buster Pol Lt-General Pongpat Chayaphan has returned to Bangkok Remand Prison after undergoing surgery at a prison hospital in response to him suffering chest pains from a chronic myocardial infarction.

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