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Yingluck sentenced to five years in jail

By The Nation

 

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Fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been sentenced to a five-year jail term.

 

The Supreme Court took almost four hours on Wednesday to read the verdict on Yingluck’s alleged negligence in her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30327834

 
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Thai former PM Yingluck gets five-year jail term for negligence

 

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FILE PHOTO: Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom/File Picture

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's ousted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was handed a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday after the country's highest court found her guilty of negligence in the management of a rice subsidy scheme.

 

Yingluck was due to hear the verdict on Aug. 25, but failed to show up, surprising hundreds of supporters who had gathered at the court.

 

Aides said she had fled Thailand, fearing a harsh sentence. Last month, Reuters reported that she had escaped to Dubai, where her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, owns a home.

 

Yingluck, who swept to power in a 2011 general election, introduced a rice subsidy scheme that proved wildly popular with farmers but which the military government says caused billions of dollars in losses.

 

Her government was ousted by the military in 2014.

 

(Reporting by Aukkarapon Niyomyat; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

 
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Her "alleged" negligence is just negligence now that she has been convicted !!

 

That's the last we'll see of her now... New beginnings :)

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Guilty Verdict And 5-Year Sentence For Former Premier Yingluck

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

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BANGKOK — Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was convicted in absentia of malfeasance and sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for corruption that occurred under her watch.

 

Delivering its verdict after a trial that ran over two years and saw its defendant flee the country, the court made its ruling in the closely watched case.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2017/09/27/court-finds-yingluck-guilty-absentia-sentences-former-prime-minister-5-years/

 
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Yingluck Shinawatra, former Thai PM, found guilty, sentenced to prison

Lindsay Murdoch

 

Bangkok: Thailand's Supreme Court has sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to five years' jail after finding her guilty of negligence over a rice subsidy scheme her government set up to help farmers.

 

Nine judges took three hours to deliver the sentence on Wednesday, one month after Yingluck dramatically fled the country.

 

The sentence will anger millions of supporters in Yingluck's "Red-Shirt" movement ahead of elections promised next year by the military that staged a coup to topple her democratically elected government after months of political unrest in 2014.

 

Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/world/yingluck-shinawatra-former-thai-pm-found-guilty-sentenced-to-prison-20170927-gypqd9.html

 

-- The Sydney Morning Herald 2017-09-27

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Yingluck verdict ‘still being read’ at 2pm

By The Nation

 

Deputy spokesman of Pheu Thai Party Wim Rungwatanachinda told reporters the verdict in the case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was still being read by the Supreme Court as of 2pm on Wednesday.

 

He had left the courtroom to talk to reporters.

 

The Supreme Court took almost three hours to read the verdict on the fugitive former prime minister’s alleged negligence in her government’s rice-pledging scheme.

 

However, at 2pm, there was rumour that the court had finished reading the verdict.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327831

 
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Two years more than her brother got! I somehow doubt either of them will ever serve a single day of it though, regardless of how much bullshit we are going to hear about asking Interpol to bring them back.

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2 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Two years more than her brother got! I somehow doubt either of them will ever serve a single day of it though, regardless of how much bullshit we are going to hear about asking Interpol to bring them back.

Her brother was sentenced by a legitimately elected government. Yingluck was sentenced by a military regime. There will be no extradition. She can claim political asylum anywhere she pleases.

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12 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Two years more than her brother got! I somehow doubt either of them will ever serve a single day of it though, regardless of how much bullshit we are going to hear about asking Interpol to bring them back.

3 years more!

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8 minutes ago, tropo said:

Her brother was sentenced by a legitimately elected government. Yingluck was sentenced by a military regime. There will be no extradition. She can claim political asylum anywhere she pleases.

 

thaksin, yingluck both sentenced by courts not sentenced by the military.

 

Maybe you should take the trouble to read the various reports of the charges and the many days of rebuttal she gave in court (in fact she attended court something like 6 times but offered nothing to prove that she was not guilty, plus her cronise also attended court and also gave nothing to prove her innocence). 

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Just now, scorecard said:

 

thaksin, yingluck both sentenced by courts not sentenced by the military.

 

Maybe you should take the trouble to read the various reports of the charges and the many days of rebuttal she gave in court (in fact she attended court something like 6 times but offered nothing to prove that she was not guilty, plus her cronise also attended court and also gave nothing to prove her innocence). 

 the onus is not on the defendant to prove her innocence. Even in the dodgy Thai 'justice' system.

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Just now, sjaak327 said:

 the onus is not on the defendant to prove her innocence. Even in the dodgy Thai 'justice' system.

 

Then why does the court allow her and other to defend her?

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6 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

thaksin, yingluck both sentenced by courts not sentenced by the military.

 

Maybe you should take the trouble to read the various reports of the charges and the many days of rebuttal she gave in court (in fact she attended court something like 6 times but offered nothing to prove that she was not guilty, plus her cronise also attended court and also gave nothing to prove her innocence). 

They were sentenced under the judicial system of 2 types of government. One elected, one imposed by a military coup. If you can't see the difference, no amount of reading will help you. 

 

 It doesn't matter what the charges are. You need to consider what an extradition hearing in a foreign country would conclude. That was my opinion, you're welcome to yours.

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46 minutes ago, Thaiwrath said:

A verdict that was decided before the trial started !

Every verdict here in Thailand is decided before the trial starts.  

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