Yingluck's lawyer petitions for justice again



BANGKOK: -- Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawata resubmitted petition to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC ) today seeking testimony of eight more witnesses to defend her for alleged negligence of duty, and corruption in the rice-pledging scheme.

Her lawyer Noravich Laleng was designated to submit the petition to the NACC after earlier petition for witness testimony was rejected.

She claimed in the petition Tuesday that any rejection to hear witness testimony from eight witnesses would be unfair to her to defend the alleged corruption case.

She said this was not to delay the NACC’s inquiry case but merely for justice to prove her innocence in the allegations.

She wanted the NACC to clearly check the 2.977 million tons of rice stockpiles which she assured did not go missing and to not rush to conclude its finding by basing on the figures released by the auditing committee.

NACC’s suspension of all witnesses in the rice-pledging scheme is unfair to her and will only mislead the public into believing that widespread corruption prevailed in the scheme as the ongoing stockpile checks are still underway and not yet finished.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/yinglucks-lawyer-petition-justices/

-- Thai PBS 2014-07-08

is unfair to her and will only mislead the public into believing that widespread corruption prevailed in the scheme

Really, well I never ...........................

oh my, she knows everything better. Thaksin syndrome?

I guess this is her last attempt to get away with crime.

Why didn't she care at first?

For what it's worth, although a god-almighty waste of the courts time hearing these irrelevant character witnesses, they might be better off allowing their testimony. It's not as if there is a cat in hell's chance of her proving she was not head of the rice committee. It's a cold, hard fact that she was the head, at least in name. Allowing their testimony might slow the shin lovers monotonous drone of "politically motivated, unfair trial, kangaroo court" etc etc

This is a momentous and quite thrilling period in Thai history. A big fish, after losing her megabucks PR team, unable to flee the borders, will actually face trial, and Allah Inshallah will get the justice she so deserves.

justice must be seen to be done

outcome of the trial has probably been decided

If they have nothing to worry about, why not let her have her witnesses, surely this would be a fair way to find out the truth. Rather than to suppress any evidence whatsoever.

If they have nothing to worry about, why not let her have her witnesses, surely this would be a fair way to find out the truth. Rather than to suppress any evidence whatsoever.

what evidence? She never attended a meeting. Farmers didn't get paid. Now she is trying to blame the so corrupted farmers. These are the facts. Need any wittiness for no show?

NACC’s suspension of all witnesses in the rice-pledging scheme is unfair to her and will only mislead the public into believing that widespread corruption prevailed in the scheme

Mislead?

If there existed real justice back then, the Thaksin clan and their close members should be punished.

What kind of justice is she looking for? Hiding the truth? Stealing a lot of money? It is a pay back time for her for what she did.

nice to see westerners adopting the native system of justice.

Shinawata family all corrupt :-)

She wanted the NACC to clearly check the 2.977 million tons of rice stockpiles which she assured did not go missing and to not rush to conclude its finding by basing on the figures released by the auditing committee.

So she wants the NACC to disregard the 200,000 kilo already found missing and any more that is found missing so they will not use this information to conclude her guilt. I supposed her argument next would be that since the NACC didn't do the check themselves that any findings done by the army is invalid to her case?

Who is she kidding? She is panicking now that the checks on the rice has already started showing massive losses in both product and quality.

does this woman not read the news and the daily updates regarding the rice

missing - good rice replaced by rejects from the millers - old rice that should not be in stock - G2G deals that never existed - fabricated figures - 800 billion missing - Lies - corruption - rice from unknown sources - no money to pay the farmers

It would be much easier to list what is right with the rice scheme than list what is wrong

_ There is some rice in storage - that's about it right there

Who was in charge ? you were you daft cow

More witnesses to say what ? you were shopping that day <deleted>

This is nothing more than Thaksin trying to stir the pot and getting her into more trouble

This woman is truly getting giddy

Yingluck already has a gaggle of witnesses. What's wrong with them, and why does she want more ? She is now trying to defend the indefensible. Not a clever move, and as one who used to have some sympathy for her, I hope she gets held accountable to the full extent of the law.

justice must be seen to be done

outcome of the trial has probably been decided

no they still need to decide if beheading or hanging.

For what it's worth, although a god-almighty waste of the courts time hearing these irrelevant character witnesses, they might be better off allowing their testimony. It's not as if there is a cat in hell's chance of her proving she was not head of the rice committee. It's a cold, hard fact that she was the head, at least in name. Allowing their testimony might slow the shin lovers monotonous drone of "politically motivated, unfair trial, kangaroo court" etc etc

This is a momentous and quite thrilling period in Thai history. A big fish, after losing her megabucks PR team, unable to flee the borders, will actually face trial, and Allah Inshallah will get the justice she so deserves.

Totally agree. wonder if any of the witnesses were involved in the inspections carried out during her term that found little or no irregularities.

I'm pretty certain she can prove she wasn't directly involved in allowing corruption due to her lack of attendance at meetings and ordering the previously mentioned inspections. Whether her lack of attendance is able to be used to prove negligence I don't know.

I can understand that she wasn't going to be able to do a good job as PM due to her lack of experience but she was CEO of at least one Shin company which I would have thought involved attending meetings and arguing the case for your proposed actions and standing up and explaining those actions. Bearing in mind her habit of not being at meetings or parliament it makes me wonder how real the CEO position was as well.

bangkokpost has new revelations. Vast amounts are missing and not even 10% of warehouses checked yet.

If there was any real justice, Yingluck would have her way. She could check every sack personally, her and another person of her choice could spend the rest of their lives grabbing an end of a sack and hoisting it on to a scale. Shouldn't take them much more than 40 years, now there is a punishment to fit the crime. P.S. I hope she chooses Jatuporn

Of course had the rice scheme worked Yingluck would have been the first to claim responsibility for its success. Just like Thaksin took Chuans' credit for the success of the IMF bailout.

They should let her call her witnesses, any good lawyer will be able to tear them to shreds. When someone is guilty, the less said the better. Therefore, these extra witnesses should provide discrepancies in their stories under tough questioning.

Maybe Yingluck is confident that they won't be allowed and then she can call the process unfair. She might S**t herself if they actually allow them to testify. In fact an opportunity has been lost already by the prosecution because they've had longer to practise their lines.

The only thing fair for them is when things go their way

If they have nothing to worry about, why not let her have her witnesses, surely this would be a fair way to find out the truth. Rather than to suppress any evidence whatsoever.

It's hardly suppressing evidence. Their testimonies have already been read (and dismissed as irrelevant) and 8 more witnesses who have nothing further to add than "she's a really lovely person and you're being so unkind to her" is not really going to add much to the investigation now, is it?

The only people worrying about this by the way are those involved neck deep in this shit, especially dear dumb Yingluck, and from the looks of things so far, justice might actually be done for once here with seizures of assets to refund all the stolen monies.

The lady is desperate. I'm sure that the witnesses have been well scripted already with alibis for her. Each witness will ask one after the other for a postponement of a month after each session with the hope that the case can be dragged out until the next elections.

For what it's worth, although a god-almighty waste of the courts time hearing these irrelevant character witnesses, they might be better off allowing their testimony. It's not as if there is a cat in hell's chance of her proving she was not head of the rice committee. It's a cold, hard fact that she was the head, at least in name. Allowing their testimony might slow the shin lovers monotonous drone of "politically motivated, unfair trial, kangaroo court" etc etc

This is a momentous and quite thrilling period in Thai history. A big fish, after losing her megabucks PR team, unable to flee the borders, will actually face trial, and Allah Inshallah will get the justice she so deserves.

Totally agree. wonder if any of the witnesses were involved in the inspections carried out during her term that found little or no irregularities.

I'm pretty certain she can prove she wasn't directly involved in allowing corruption due to her lack of attendance at meetings and ordering the previously mentioned inspections. Whether her lack of attendance is able to be used to prove negligence I don't know.

I can understand that she wasn't going to be able to do a good job as PM due to her lack of experience but she was CEO of at least one Shin company which I would have thought involved attending meetings and arguing the case for your proposed actions and standing up and explaining those actions. Bearing in mind her habit of not being at meetings or parliament it makes me wonder how real the CEO position was as well.

Chalerm was leading the inspection teams if i remember correctly.

justice must be seen to be done

outcome of the trial has probably been decided

I must agree. It does seem that incompetence and corruption on Yingluck's part, albeit on behalf of her brother, is self-evident and clear cut.

Do I see some similarities with Junta appointed AEC taking legal action against Taksin who also refused to hear 300 witnesses and re-consider 100 additional pieces of evidence? Got to find the reason to justify an action.

Do I see some similarities with Junta appointed AEC taking legal action against Taksin who also refused to hear 300 witnesses and re-consider 100 additional pieces of evidence? Got to find the reason to justify an action.

You mean the same biased AEC that did not pursue the case against Yingluck (Ample Rich share dividends)?

I guess she has too keep up the lies in order not to lose the support from those red shirts who still believe all her previous lies. Every day pictures and evidence of rice scam corruption is published in the newspapers, yet I am sure there are still some naive Shinawatra supporters out there.

She is obviously just trying to delay the case against her, but anyway, if I was the court, I would tell her she can bring one last list of a limited amount of witnesses to be heard, provided she agreein writing not to bring any more witnesses after that.

For what it's worth, although a god-almighty waste of the courts time hearing these irrelevant character witnesses, they might be better off allowing their testimony. It's not as if there is a cat in hell's chance of her proving she was not head of the rice committee. It's a cold, hard fact that she was the head, at least in name. Allowing their testimony might slow the shin lovers monotonous drone of "politically motivated, unfair trial, kangaroo court" etc etc

This is a momentous and quite thrilling period in Thai history. A big fish, after losing her megabucks PR team, unable to flee the borders, will actually face trial, and Allah Inshallah will get the justice she so deserves.

Totally agree. wonder if any of the witnesses were involved in the inspections carried out during her term that found little or no irregularities.

I'm pretty certain she can prove she wasn't directly involved in allowing corruption due to her lack of attendance at meetings and ordering the previously mentioned inspections. Whether her lack of attendance is able to be used to prove negligence I don't know.

I can understand that she wasn't going to be able to do a good job as PM due to her lack of experience but she was CEO of at least one Shin company which I would have thought involved attending meetings and arguing the case for your proposed actions and standing up and explaining those actions. Bearing in mind her habit of not being at meetings or parliament it makes me wonder how real the CEO position was as well.

When she left that position she wasn't replaced so can't have been contributing too much to the enterprise.

A request for more witnesses can only be stalling for time.

Do I see some similarities with Junta appointed AEC taking legal action against Taksin who also refused to hear 300 witnesses and re-consider 100 additional pieces of evidence? Got to find the reason to justify an action.

And you, Eric, apparently have to find a reason to justify the Shin Clan.