Order by NCPO chief strips Thaksin of police rank

Prime Minister Prayut opted to do this to avoid involving His Majesty the King in the issue, according to a government spokesman. This was “the best method in the current situation”, another spokesman said yesterday.
Previously, the government was going to seek royal endorsement to the prime minister’s acknowledgement of national police chief General Somyot Poompanmuang’s order to strip Thaksin of his rank of police lieutenant colonel.
The NCPO chief’s order was published in the Royal Gazette yesterday.