Bangkok - Thai police on Sunday questioned a suspect in the grenade bombing of a bank's headquarters in
Bangkok late last month, the government-run Thai News Agency reported Sunday. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters the man is believed to be the driver of the motorcycle in the grenade attack on the Bangkok Bank headquarters in central Bangkok.
Bangkok Bank is Thailand's largest commercial
bank and its headquarters was among four of its branches that were attacked with grenades late on February 27. There were no casualties in any of the attacks.
Earlier Abhisit said the same type of explosives were used at each site and police were investigating where the criminals might have gained access to those materials.
The explosions came a day after a Supreme Court decision to confiscate 1.4 billion dollars of frozen bank assets belonging to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his family on charges of abuse of power.
The
court allowed his family to keep another nearly 1 billion dollars, which the judges ruled had been earned before Thaksin was in power.
Thaksin was prime minister from 2001 until September 2006 when he was overthrown in a bloodless coup.
Bangkok Bank is known to be one of the
corporate backers of Thaksin's political opponents.
Thaksin has a huge following among Thailand's urban and rural poor thanks to the populist policies he implemented during his premiership.
He also attracted followers among radical groups intent on overthrowing Thailand's political elite, comprised of the military establishment, the civil service, old money such as Bangkok Bank's Sophanpanich clan and monarchists.
