UPDATE - With Sportsmail revealing that former Manchester City Chairman John Wardle (who resigned in protest against Sinawatra on July 9th) loaned Thaskin Sinawatra 2 Million Pound and that the Former Thai Prime Minister has had to borrow money THREE separate times to pay City staff , things just aren’t looking so good for City.

And now Barclay’s Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore is demanding crisis talks with Shinawatra saying, ‘We are clearly going to have to establish the status of his return to England and where that leaves him in regard to the legal process in Thailand.

‘Our rules are clear that somebody has to be convicted of something to fail the “fit and proper person” criteria and, until someone does, he still falls within our rules. But there is no point in having this test unless it is meaningful, as we have always said it is, and it has to be applied.

‘We need to make sure that, if somebody is guilty of something, we will deal with it.’

Throw in new City Chief Operating Officer Paul Aldridge and the circus surrounding the Stephen Ireland to Sunderland talks, ol’ Sparky must be looking back over his shoulder at Blackurn wondering if he made the right decision.

Manchester City owner and Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has refused return to Thailand to face corruption charges, which will now cast serious doubt over the future of the clubs ownership after an arrest warrant was issued after his missed court date.

Shinawatra and his wife had been given permission to leave Thailand to attend the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing with the agreement that he would return directly afterwards. Instead both Thaskin and his wife fled to London where they will explore exile status.

With over 1 Billion Pound of Shinawatra’s money being frozen by the Thai government, the 52 year old still has access to 200 Million Pound and once again insisted the charges were politically motivated.

Shinawatra issued a statement saying, “My wife and I will stay in England where democracy is more important.’What happened to me and my family and my close relations resulted from efforts to get rid of me from politics.”

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