A Thai court on Wednesday indicted Panthongtae Shinawatra, the 38-year-old son of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, on charges of money laundering, a case his supporters condemned as politically motivated, The Associated Press reports. The son is accused of receiving a 10 million baht ($300,000) check in 2004 related to an earlier corruption case involving 9.9 billion baht of fraudulent loans extended by the state-owned Krungthai Bank when his father was prime minister, as reported by Reuters. Supporters of the Shinawatras, backed by poor, rural voters, accuse the military government of seeking to hobble the family and its allies ahead of a general election set for next year. The government denies that.