Yingluck Shinawatra and jail time

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Thai junta offers farmers $514 million in rice loans
8 November 2016

File photo of Thai farmers planting rice. (Photo: Yukihiro Torikai / Wikimedia)
prices as farmers of the grain become the new battleground between the junta and the opposition ahead of 2017 elections.

Tumbling rice prices have sent the ruling juntaYingluck Shinawatra, whose government was overthrown in a May 2014 military coupThaksinReuters

[S Landreth]

Yingluck insists she merely wants to help farmers without any hidden agenda

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yin...hidden-agenda/

[sabang]

Press space, attention being given to the farmers plight. Job done. And she's respectfully dressed in black.

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Battle for Thai agricultural workers' support heats up
Max Constant
11.11.2016

Former Thai PM fighting to maintain support from country's farming community in wake of junta's own populist rice plan

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Farmers urged to form cooperatives to find solutions to low prices

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/politics/30299857

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6,000 officials suspected in B142bn rice scheme loss

The justice minister has received a list of 6,000 state officials suspected of malfeasance leading to losses totalling 142 billion baht in the Yingluck Shinawatra government's rice-pledging scheme.

Minister Paiboon Koomchaya said at Government House on Tuesday that the list came from the Prime Minister's Office and the ministries of agriculture, commerce, finance and interior.

Of the 6,000 names, 2,000 were former ministers and members of sub-committees at executive levels, and the other 4,000 were officials at operational levels, the justice minister said.

That did not mean all of the listed people had already been found guilty, Gen Paiboon said. Authorities would examine the details to confirm those really responsible for the loss, and how much they should pay individually to compensate the state.

He also said the Interior Ministry had yet to list business operators also responsible for the 142 billion baht loss.

The government is demanding 178 billion baht in compensation for the losses accumulated by Ms Yingluck's rice-pledging scheme for the 2012-2014 crops. The former prime minister has been ordered to pay 20% of the sum, or 35.7 billion baht. The military government blames her for not stopping the scheme once it was found plagued with losses and corruption, despite being advised repeatedly to do so.

The government has said it would order the other government officials involved, and business operators, to pay the remaining 80%, totalling 142 billion baht.

The Yingluck government's pledging price was set at 40-50% higher than the market price in the hope that hoarding rice in massive stockpiles would push up global prices, but the scheme backfired.

In September Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha issued an order under Section 44 of the 2014 interim constitution authorising the Legal Execution Department to seize the assets of state officials found liable to pay civil damages for the rice programme losses.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/gene...ce-scheme-loss

The government has said it would order the other government officials involved, and business operators, to pay the remaining 80%, totalling 142 billion baht.

[MrBlobby]

Abisit will be one of the 6000 then for his failed rice scheme

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Yingluck stands trial for dereliction of duty on rice scheme in Supreme Court today

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yin...e-court-today/

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Supreme Court issues warning over threats in Yingluck case

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/politics/30300324

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glared at the prosecutor,

Grow up you poor thin skinned fool .

[Norton]

Heinous crime of glaring.

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Eight tonnes of rice sold in 3 hours through co-op initiative
Kritsada Mueanhawong
November 18, 2016


Eight tons of jasmine rice from Sisaket sold out in three hours at Krabi Provincial Co-operative Offices on Thursday.
Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

KRABI: Eight tonnes of jasmine rice from Sisaket Province sold out in just three hours in Krabi yesterday in a government-led initiative to supply rice at a reduced price directly from farmers to consumers.

The 2pm sell-off of rice stocks was jointly organized by the Krabi Provincial Co-operative Offices (KPCO) and the Sisaket Agricultural Marketing Co-operative (SAMC), with the aim of helping rice farmers hit by a recent drop in the wholesale price of rice to just 5 baht a kilogram (story here

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Yingluck in court for rice-pledging case trial

Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday attended the 7th examination of defence witnesses in a case she is accused of dereliction of duty in the loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme.

A large number of supporters turned up at the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions to give her moral support on her arrival amid tight security.

They included former deputy prime ministers Pongthep Thepkanchana and Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisal, former commerce minister Yanyong Puangraj, acting Pheu Thai leader Viroj Pao-in, and acting party secretary-general Phumtham Vechayachai.

Ampon Kitti-ampon, a former cabinet secretary-general, and Thanusak Lek-uthai, a former deputy finance minister in the Yingluck government, were to testify today as defence witnesses.

Ms Yingluck said before attending the court hearing that she would fight in every way within the scope of the law against an administrative order for her to pay 35.7 billion baht in compensation for losses in the rice-pledging scheme.

"I will exercise all my rights through every legal channel available to fight the allegations and the unfair order," she said, adding that her legal team was studying the order.

Two rice crops during 2012-14 incurred losses of 178 billion baht, of which Ms Yingluck has been ordered to pay 20%.

On the government's pledge to seek others involved to pay the remaining 80%, Ms Yingluck said she wanted the government to properly follow legal procedures to ensure justice for all.

On her ongoing attempt to help farmers suffering from the rice price slump, which was seen by the government as a publicity stunt, the former prime minister said in this situation all concerned had better turn their attention to farmers instead of raising an argument via the media.

On a proposed maximum penalty of death against politicians found guilty of selling and buying political positions under the draft political party bill by Peerasak Porjit, a deputy chairman of the National Legislative Assembly, Ms Yingluck said she had no comment.

However, she said an issue involving few people should not be used as the basis for rules to be enforced on a large number of people, adding that doing so could cause problems difficult to solve in the future.


http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/poli...ing-case-trial

[MrBlobby]

Yingluk is killing this big style,

She makes a few small gestures toward the farmers, and prayut throws billions of baht at them

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Two standards of populism in Thailand
Amnuay
December 7, 2016


From Thairath, November 24, 2016