Govt adds month to Yingluck's explanation time before panel

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Govt adds month to Yingluck's explanation time before panel
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra has 30 more days of explaining to do before the investigation committee set up to probe her then government's corruption-tainted rice-pledging scheme.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam Thursday said there were some more questions the committee wanted to ask Yingluck despite the process' original deadline passing last month. He did not elaborate.

Wissanu insisted that Yingluck was negligent to allow the scheme to be corrupted.

The government is expected to seek up to Bt500 billion in compensation from Yingluck due to the damages caused to the country by the scheme.

However, according to the law a defendant can negotiate to reduce the compensation figure, Wissanu said.

Government spokesman Maj-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd expressed displeasure over Yingluck and her lawyer Norrawit Larlaeng's decision to make public letters they had sent to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha in which Yingluck appealed to him.

"Why do they give hints to the plaintiff [the government]?" he said. "They could just let us blunder on so they are at an advantage if the court sees their point of view."

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Govt-adds-month-to-Yinglucks-explanation-time-befo-30270961.html

-- The Nation 2015-10-15

[Basil B]

Anyone surprised???

Her legal team getting quite expert at delaying...

[ChrisY1]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

[seajae]

her lawyers probably trying to see how many cake/donut boxes they can give away to all the officials concerned to ensure nothing untoward happens to her, after all, they do have experience with it.

Edited October 15, 2015 by seajae

[Prbkk]

In any respectable jurisdiction these clowns would be laughed out of court.

[Baerboxer]

In any respectable jurisdiction these clowns would be laughed out of court.

I take it you mean both - plaintiffs and defendants?

[Baerboxer]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

What happened to the trials of those who seemed to have committed fraud with false export deals?

And those other cases of warehousing or milling people?

The actual progress of cases within the Thai legal system begins to make India's system look slick.

[Thai at Heart]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

What happened to the trials of those who seemed to have committed fraud with false export deals?

And those other cases of warehousing or milling people?

The actual progress of cases within the Thai legal system begins to make India's system look slick.

There have been convictions attached to all of those cases I believe and no accusation the Yingluck personally gained from the system.

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RICE-PLEDGING SCHEME
Yingluck gets 30 more days to explain herself
THE NATION



BANGKOK: -- THE committee set up to probe ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra over her government's controversial rice-pledging scheme has given her an additional 30 days to explain her actions.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam yesterday said there were some more questions the committee wanted to ask Yingluck despite the process' original deadline passing last month. He did not elaborate.

Wissanu insisted that Yingluck was negligent in allowing the scheme to inflict huge losses on the country.

The government is expected to seek up to Bt500 billion in compensation from Yingluck due to the damage caused to the country by the scheme.

However, according to the law a defendant can negotiate to reduce the compensation figure, Wissanu said.

Government Spokesman Maj-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd expressed displeasure over Yingluck and her lawyer Norrawit Larlaeng's decision to write an open letter to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha in which Yingluck appealed to him.

"Why do they give hints to the plaintiff [the government]?" he said. "They could just let us blunder on so they are at an advantage if the court sees their point of view."

Norrawit said Yingluck had appealed to Prayut in several letters but was yet to receive replies and that was why she had written an open letter to him.

He added that the working procedure of the investigation committee was not fair to Yingluck.

The committee created its own schedule to question witnesses without caring whether a witness was available, he said, adding that when a witness was not available the committee cut them from the process.

'Action against her necessary'

Yingluck on Tuesday had her lawyer submit the open letter to Prayut in response to the PM's move to issue an administrative order to make Yingluck pay compensation - a decision Yingluck's camp believes could be an abuse of authority motivated by politics.

Wissanu said the premier did not need to sign the order and could leave the matter to the finance minister.

Sansern said the government needed to take action against Yingluck as the National Anti-Corruption Commission had submitted the case against her to the Finance Ministry in February.

He said Prayut and the finance minister had set up the investigative committee as per the Liability for Wrongful Act of Officials Act.

That was done as Article 4 of the Act stated the legislation covered civil servants, officers, employees and other kinds of government workers. Yingluck, as prime minister, was head of the National Rice Committee.

Sansern said although Article 4 stated it was not applicable to Parliament and the Cabinet, Yingluck could not be exempted as her actions were done on an individual basis, not as a Cabinet member.

The fact-finding committee had previously invited Yingluck a couple of times to explain her actions but had received terse written replies, he said, adding that this might be because the former premier tended to give rambling explanations in speech.

"She chose this [written] way of communication to buy time," he said.

Yingluck was welcome to submit more evidence regarding the case, because what had been submitted so far is unusable, he added.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Yingluck-gets-30-more-days-to-explain-herself-30271005.html


-- The Nation 2015-10-16

[scorecard]

"The committee created its own schedule to question witnesses without caring whether a witness was available, he said, adding that when a witness was not available the committee cut them from the process."

Says it all, the gang of thieves expect that they are entitled to some VIP / special respect.

' Can I please, if you don't mind just check, but I hope it's OK to check and I hope it wouldn't be too much of an in-convenience for you to turn up on xxxxx. And if you don't mind could you please, when convenient reply as to whether it would be inconvenient, and I hope this is not seen as impolite in any way. So very sorry to bother you, so very sorry to bother you,so very sorry to bother you'.

These immoral unethical clowns and their supporters rattle on endlessly about the elites but obviously they see themselves as elites. Ironic to say the least.

Right now they are 'playing dead', as ordered by their criminal owner absconded from a jail sentence.

Dear Thailand, beware, beware, beware!

Edited October 16, 2015 by scorecard

[petedk]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

It isn't about corruptio, but about not stopping the scheme when everyone could see it was damaging the economy of the country.

[scorecard]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

It isn't about corruptio, but about not stopping the scheme when everyone could see it was damaging the economy of the country.

Not worth wasting your time to explain anything to this member, conveniently refuses to see the point.

[billd766]

They havn't proven anyone being overtly corrupt yet.....well, not that I've heard of ...please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe a couple of warehousing people......but no-one that took a substantial part in the Thb500 billion "theft"!

It is NOT about corruption as you(should) well know by now.

It is about negligence in performing her duty as the person in charge of the rice scheme.

If your post is an attempt to divert the topic, it failed.