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       法院称，在2006年政变中被推翻的电信亿万富翁他信，滥用职权修改政府政策，使自己的家族企业渔利。他信的政治运动给他造成了矛盾的困境——这个亿万电信大亨激励了大量的穷人，但其低廉的医疗保障和财政援助等民粹主义政策却导致选民的不满。问题最终导致上周五在主要反对党总部的公开审理，他信的追随者也都聚集在这里听取对他信的判决。

    Thailand’s Supreme Court last Friday confiscated $1.4 billion in frozen assets from the nation’s fugitive former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, after finding him guilty of illegally concealing his ownership of a family company and abusing his power to benefit the companies he owned.

    It softened the blow by allowing him to keep the remainder of what had been $2.3 billion in frozen assets, saying that “to seize all the money would be unfair because some of it was made before Mr. Thaksin became prime minister.”

    The case resonated in Thailand beyond the assets of one man and was part of a long-running and sporadically violent confrontation that has divided the country. It has pitted the nation’s rural and urban poor, who support Mr. Thaksin, against the established ruling class, whose control of the political system he challenged during his six years as prime minister.