08/12/2009
A Thai national has pleaded not guilty to spying on his country's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Cambodia.
Siwarak Chothipong is charged with breaching national security and public safety in Cambodia.
The 31-year old was employed at the Thai-owned air traffic services company at Phnom Penh airport when Mr Thaksin travelled to the city a month ago to take up a role as economic adviser.
He is accused of passing on Mr Thaksin's flight plan to Thai officials, who have been seeking the former leader's extradition.
The local media says Siwarak admits that he was contacted by a Thai diplomat and he did enquire about Mr Thaksin's travel plans.
But Siwarak says he did not pass on the information.
The airservices company has since been taken over by the Cambodian government, as part of a series of tit-for-tat moves between the two countries.
Mr Thaksin is on the run from a corruption conviction.
The case has further deepened the rift between the two countries.
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