Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been sent to jail, ordered by a court, Tuesday, to serve a one-year sentence for previous convictions on charges of graft and abuse of power.

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military...

"The defendant knew the facts or was aware the situation was not a critical emergency," it said.