Rank #2550
Thaksin Shinawatra
Net worth $1.6B
Investments · Thailand
- Born
- Jul 26, 1949
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Investments
- Residence
- Bangkok
- Citizenship
- Thailand
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Science, Eastern Kentucky University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, had been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai for 15 years until he returned to his homeland in 2023.
- On his return, he was taken into custody over previous convictions and was released six months later on a special parole after spending most of the time in hospital.
- In September 2025, Thailand's Supreme Court sentenced him to prison for one year over previous convictions.Two months later the court imposed a tax demand of 17.6 billion baht on Thaksin.
- His youngest daughter Paetongtarn became Thailand's prime minister in 2024 but was suspended by a Constitutional Court in July 2025 after senators filed a petition seeking her dismissal.
- 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. A Thai court acquitted her in 2024.
- Thaksin has invested in two U.K.-based health tech startups, DNANudge and Owlstone Medical.
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