Thaksin Family Wealth Tally Draws Critics' Ire as Too Low
-- The assets of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's family were valued at 12.65 billion baht ($340 million) as of March 2006, Thailand's anticorruption agency said.
Critics immediately denounced that figure, contending it is just a fraction of the wealth Mr. Thaksin has allegedly stashed away in secret accounts.
Mr. Thaksin, one of Southeast Asia's richest men before taking office in 2001, was widely accused of corruption and crafting policy to enrich himself and his friends. The military council that ousted his government is investigating the corruption allegations.
Critics said the figure provided by the National Counter-Corruption Commission was misleading and inaccurate because Mr. Thaksin transferred large sums of money and stock holdings to relatives and others close to him, including his maid and driver.
U.S. magazine Forbes ranked Mr. Thaksin the 18th-richest man in Southeast Asia in 2005 with a fortune of $1.3 billion, a figure that opponents believe is a more accurate indicator of his wealth.
Mr. Thaksin and his family declared assets of 15.12 billion baht when he took office in 2001.
One of Mr. Thaksin's highest-profile, and most-criticized, deals was his family's sale of the telecom empire Shin Corp., which brought the family $1.9 billion and was structured so the family paid no taxes on the proceeds.
The gains of that sale didn't register in the asset disclosure because Mr. Thaksin and his wife had transferred their ownership in Shin to their two older children, who are over the age of 20, and Mr. Thaksin's brother-in-law Banpot Damapong -- none of whom are required to report their assets to the NCCC.
批评人士称所查他信家产严重不实
泰国政府的反腐败机构称，截至2006年3月，该国前总理他信?秦那越(Thaksin Shinawatra)的家庭财产价值126.5亿泰铢（合3.4亿美元）。
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批评人士立刻对这一数字提出了谴责，声称这只是他信被控通过秘密帐户所转移财产的一小部分。
他信在2001年就任泰国总理前是东南亚地区最富有的人之一，很多人指控他为政腐败并且通过政策手段使自己及朋友致富。推翻他信政府的泰国军方正在对这些腐败指控进行调查。
批评人士说，国家反腐败委员会(National Counter-Corruption Commission)提供的这一数字既不准确且存在误导，因为他信将大笔金钱以及股票转到了其亲属，以及女仆和司机等身边工作人员的名下。
在2005年美国杂志《福布斯》(Forbes)的排名中，他信在东南亚最富有的人中位列第18位，其个人财富高达13亿美元。他信的反对者认为这一数字更精确些。
他信在2001年就任泰国总理时，他和其家人申报的财产为151.2亿泰铢。
他信最广受批评的交易之一是其家族出售泰国电信巨头Shin Corp.，这一交易给他信家族带来了19亿美元的收入，而且其具体结构还使他信家族不必为资产出售收入纳税。
这一资产出售收入未计入他信名下，因为他信及其妻子已将他们在Shin的持股转入了其两个20岁以上子女以及他信的内弟Banpot Damapong的名下，而这些人是不必向国家反腐败委员会申报财产的。
