Hanoi (VNA) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has declared her personal assets worth more than 400 million USD, including hundreds of watches and dozens of luxury handbags.
According to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), Paetongtarn was obliged to declare all assets and liabilities upon assuming the role of prime minister in September last year.
Of this, her investments were worth 11 billion THB (319.1 million USD) and she had an additional 1 billion THB in deposits and cash, her declaration said.
Her assets also included 217 luxury handbags worth 76 million THB and 75 luxury watches worth 162 million THB as well as property in the UK and Japan, among other holdings. She also declared liabilities of nearly 5 billion THB, according to the NACC document posted by local media.
Paetongtarn is Thailand's youngest female Prime Minister and the second female PM in the history of the Land of the Golden Pagodas. She is the fourth member of her family to hold this position in the past two decades. She is the daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has great influence in Thai politics and is still considered a key factor supporting the Pheu Thai Party./.
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