FILE - In this file photo taken July 31, 2008, ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is flanked by his daughters, Paetongtarn, left, and Pintongta, right, outside criminal court after the court ruled out that his wife Pojaman guilty on tax evasion in Bangkok. Since being ousted as Thailand’s prime minister in a 2006 military coup, Thaksin Shinawatra has been a very busy man. The billionaire bought the England’s Manchester City football club and a titanium mine in Zimbabwe, started a lottery in Uganda and acquired a Nicaraguan passport. He met with Vladimir Putin and Nelson Mandela. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)