BANGKOK, March 11 (NNN-TNA) -- Pojaman na Pombejra, former wife of Thailand's fugitive ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra and their children were not barred by any court order from going abroad, their lawyers said, as news reports monitored the departures of their son and daughters, who left Bangkok for Switzerland Wednesday night.

Mr Thaksin's legal advisor Noppadon Pattama told reporters that the court had no order to bar Mrs Pojaman from travelling abroad and her trip, if planned, would have no need to ask court for the permission as she had no cases pending judgement in the Supreme Court.

However, the Supreme Court reportedly lifted an earlier order prohibiting Mrs Pojaman from going abroad. She could now leave Thailand by showing the Court order to immigration officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Meanwhile, lawyer Kittiporn Arunrat, retained for Panthongtae and Pinthongta, Mr Thaksin's son and daughter who were both also involved in the ex-premier's assets seizure case, said he did not know the overseas travel plans of the brother and sister, but said that such a trip was possible.

Mr Kittiporn said that although the court ruled to seize a portion of Mr Thaksin's assets, the case was a civil case and court had no order prohibiting them from leaving for overseas destinations.

News reports said that Mr Panthongtae had left for Dubai while Miss Pinthongta had departed for Switzerland, but the names of Pojaman and Praethongtan did not appear on a passenger list.

Ousted in the bloodless coup of September 2006, Mr Thaksin now spends most of his time in Dubai.

He said in his social network website that his two daughters were scheduled to visit an exhibition and trade fair hotels in Germany which had been booked earlier and that they would visit him in Dubai.

The nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on February 26 ordered the seizure of the ex-premier's assets valued at Bt46.373 billion ($1.4 billion) of the entire Bt76.6 billion ($2.29 billion) in frozen assets of the Shinawatra family.

The highest court ruled that Mr Thaksin illegally concealed his ownership of stock in Shin Corp., the family's telecommunications empire, and abused his authority during his two terms in office, from 2001-2006 to benefit Shin Corp businesses, and that therefore the earnings from the shares and dividends gained while Mr Thaksin was in power were assets that were illegally acquired and must be seized.

The judges said the remaining frozen assets valued at Bt30.2 billion will be returned to Mr Thaksin and his ex-wife Pojaman as the assets had been acquired before Mr Thaksin became prime minister in 2001.

Mr Noppadon said the legal team were preparing an appeal to the case and believed the team could be able to present new evidence within 30 days.

Then it becomes the court's decision whether to accept the legal challenge or not, he said. -- NNN-TNA