Thaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, has been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai for more than a decade.He owns a controlling stake in property firm SC Asset, among much else. In 2017, the ruling military junta imposed a retrospective tax on Thaksin's sale of telecom firm Shin Corp's shares to Singapore's Temasek.His sister Yingluck, also a former prime minister, fled the country in 2017 to escape arrest over a rice subsidy scheme. In a front-page column in the New York Times, Thaksin alleged that Thailand's March 2019 election was rigged.