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Thailand seeks to prosecute ousted PM Thaksin in absentia in two graft cases

BANGKOK, Nov 21 (Reuters) Thailand is seeking to prosecute ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for graft under a law that allows politicians to be tried in absentia, an official said on Tuesday, months after Thaksin's sister was sentenced to jail in her absence.
Thailand is divided broadly between those backing Thaksin and his sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was removed in a 2014 coup, and the elite in the capital, Bangkok.
A former commerce minister and member of Yingluck's Puea Thai Party that was ousted in the coup said the planned prosecution of Thaksin was politically motivated.
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