**Cambodia’s king has pardoned a Thai man jailed for seven years for spying on Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, a Cambodian government spokesman says.**Siwarak Chothipong, 31, was accused of passing Mr Thaksin’s private flight details to Thai diplomats while the former PM was on a visit to Cambodia.
Relations between the two nations have been tense since Mr Thaksin was named an economic adviser to Cambodia.
He is wanted in Thailand to serve a prison sentence for corruption.
A government spokesman said Siwarak, an air traffic controller, would be released on Monday to his family and a delegation from Thailand’s main opposition party, the AFP news agency reports.
At Sirawak’s sentencing earlier this week, the judge said he had breached security by leaking the details of Mr Thaksin’s private flights while Mr Thaksin was a guest of the government.
But the seven-year sentence was actually the lightest possible for spying. The maximum would have been 15.