CrazyExpat Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Thailand’s attorney general has pressed criminal charges against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, alleging negligence related to her government’s rice subsidy scheme. The expected charge is the latest move initiated by the junta-led government against her polarising family and could see her jailed for up to a decade. Thailand’s regime is also considering launching a civil suit against the nation’s first female prime minister to seek $18bn in compensation for damages caused by the scheme. The prosecutors’ office on Thursday submitted 20 boxes of the case’s documents to the supreme court’s criminal division for politicians. They accused Yingluck of dereliction in overseeing a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars and temporarily cost Thailand its crown as the world’s top rice exporter. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/19/thailand-indicts-yingluck-shinawatra-over-rice-subsidy-scheme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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