By Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok
Financial Times
A Cambodian court yesterday sentenced a Thai engineer to seven years in jail for spying, in a decision likely to inflame the country's feud with Thailand.
The Phnom Penh court found Siwarak Chothipong guilty of passing the flight plan for Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's fugitive former prime minister, to a diplomat in the Thai embassy.
Mr Thaksin, who lives in self-imposed exile after a Thai court sentenced him to two years in jail for abuse of power , flew to Cambodia on a five-day visit last month. He was given VIP treatment by Hun Sen, the Cambodian prime minister, who had named him as a special economic adviser.
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