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Bangkok - Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Pojaman, have started legal procedures for seeking political asylum in Britain, media reports said Thursday.

"At this moment, Thaksin's legal team is proceeding to ask for political asylum for Thaksin and his family in Britain," Watchara Seangprathum, the head of Thaksin's legal team in Thailand, told The Nation newspaper.

London, Aug 14 : Thailand today confirmed that it will request the extradition of former Thai Prime Minister and owner of the Manchester City football club, Thaksin Shinawatra, from Britain, after he fled to London to avoid facing a trial for fraud.

Thai Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag said that the country’s first step would be the cancellation of the diplomatic passports held by Thaksin and his wife, Potjaman, after arrest warrants were issued for them on Monday by the country’s Supreme Court.

Bangkok - Thai authorities are preparing to seize 2.3 billion dollars in frozen assets belonging to ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, who fled the country last weekend, media reports said Wednesday.

The foreign ministry is also preparing to cancel Thaksin's diplomatic passport, the Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.

Bangkok  - Deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojaman failed to appear at the Supreme Court Monday, as ordered, amid speculation that the former first couple were seeking asylum abroad.

The court on July 29 granted Thaksin and Pojaman, who face several abuse-of-power and corruption cases in Thailand, permission to travel to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday.

London, Aug. 7 : Thailand’s former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has dismissed reports that he wants to sell the Manchester City football club due to financial difficulties.

Expressing his dismay over the way talks with potential commercial and business partners have been interpreted, Shinawatra, who has been charged with corruption back in Thailand, said that there was no truth to rumour that he was engaged in a sell out.