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| Former Thai PM Thaksin back home | Former Thai PM Thaksin back home |
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| Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has arrived in Thailand after spending 17 months in exile. | |
| He said he was prepared to face charges of corruption from the years he was in power from 2001 to 2006. | |
| The 58-year-old billionaire businessman is expected to go straight from Bangkok airport, where a large crowd gathered to greet him, to the Supreme Court. | |
| He was removed from power in a military coup in September 2006 and has lived outside the country since then. | He was removed from power in a military coup in September 2006 and has lived outside the country since then. |
| Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Harding on the flight from Hong Kong, Thaksin said the charges against him were politically motivated. | |
| He said he had mixed feelings about returning to home, but that he was through with politics and wished to focus on his football interests - he owns Manchester City and was travelling with two of the British club's players. |