PM: Govt not trying to dictate outcome of Yingluck case

[webfact]

PM: Govt not trying to dictate outcome of Yingluck case

 

 

BANGKOK, 7 August 2017 (NNT) – The prime minister has confirmed that the government has no intention of trying to influence the court’s verdict in the rice pledging scheme case. 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has denied allegations that the government is exerting power to dictate the outcome of the rice corruption case involving former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, confirming that the prosecution of the former premier over the mishandling of the rice subsidy scheme is in accordance with regular court procedures. 

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system. 

The court will render its verdict this August 25th. 

Yingluck gave her final statement in the criminal negligence trial on Tuesday, August 1st, denying accusations that she allowed corruption to take place or acted dishonestly in the rice program.

 

-- nnt 2017-08-07

[over it]

And pigs fly.... 

[BuckBee]

Normal court procedures normally don't have the wealthy turn up and all charges get forgotten about :-S

Following normal legal and court procedures could mean prayut and family at court soon then lol ...

[ezzra]

The die is cast in this case already, is just that the verdict is not known yet,

and as for government meddling in everyday affairs, well, anyone who has

been in this country for longer than the time than needs to brow a cup of

coffee knows better....

[Cadbury]

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system

A great line to start the week General.....a good one to bring on a laugh. 

Heaven forbid! Who would ever have thought that Prayut's government would even dream of doing such a thing.

He must think everyone except himself is stupid.

Edited August 6, 2017 by Cadbury

[AGareth2]

maybe

but the courts better do what the gov wants

or they will appeal

[Get Real]

This man clearly have a unique set of interesting perception, and view on how things might be, abilities. 

[mtls2005]

Given that past history of the huge number of coups, governments, PMs, many, many, of which were investigated by their "successors" for unusual wealth, no PM has ever been jailed. (Yes, some did a runner, and died outside the Kingdom, while others eventually returned, after the SoL. I'm not referring to Thaksin.) 

 

Not a good precedent to be setting while claiming to be concerned about reconciliation.

 

Now if the PM was willing to rescind his self-granted amnesty, and face charges of over-throwing a government, he might get a bit more respect?

[yellowboat]

49 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

 

A great line to start the week General.....a good one to bring on a laugh. 

Heaven forbid! Who would ever have thought that Prayut's government would even dream of doing such a thing.

He must think everyone except himself is stupid.

Considering his whole coup is about marginalizing the Shinawartas, who would think he would want to influence anything ?   He just sounds delusional, or he thinks if he repeats something enough, people will believe.  He is entertaining at least. 

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

PM: Govt not trying to dictate outcome of Yingluck case

but if you wanted to, you could..., huh, nudge, nudge...

(and therein lies the problem)

[YetAnother]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system. 

really ? recently ,a judge came out publicly and affirmed that some judicial outcomes were political; 

[irwinfc]

as if any "trying" is necessary

[Remus1830]

He is just jealous that the shinawatras were both legally elected pm s and he is an illegal unelected pm and if there was a legal election today the public would still vote either one of the shinawatras in if they were allowed to run.unfortunately for this imposter pm he would get deservedly humiliated or like in Turkey arrested along with anyone who supported the coup.

[baboon]

This from a man already guilty of perverting the course of justice in the Ko Tao case.

But yes, there is probably no need to dictate the outcome as all the other actors in this farce will already be fully aware of what is expected of them.

[robblok]

2 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

maybe

but the courts better do what the gov wants

or they will appeal

That is standard, same goes for the defendant they all appeal when things don't go the way they want. 

[robblok]

24 minutes ago, baboon said:

This from a man already guilty of perverting the course of justice in the Ko Tao case.

But yes, there is probably no need to dictate the outcome as all the other actors in this farce will already be fully aware of what is expected of them.

Yea, they know that not chairing any of the meeting, not listening to the world bank and keeping the losses out of the central budget and her own ministers involved in fake G2G trades, no checks were made where rice came from (lot of rice cam from Cambodia) make it quite hard not to convict her. She did not even defend herself for not being at any of the meetings. She only said i could not stop it as it was our policy... so if something is going so wrong you still can't stop it.. strange that she then later did try to lower the price of the rice she bought... 

 

She is guilty and she knows it that is why she is playing the victim instead of defending her actions.  Had she just put the losses in the central budget she would have been much safer from procecution, but then she could not go on with all the other popular policies as you can only spend money once... the backlash would have been too much. She was hoping for the two trillion baht loan to cover it all up... unfortunately for her the junta took over and she could not cover it all up as she lost her power. 

Edited August 7, 2017 by robblok

[rkidlad]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system

If you can take over the country with a gun, I'm pretty sure you can intervene in the legal system. 

 

There are no laws here. They're just made up as they go along. 

[AGareth2]

2 hours ago, robblok said:

That is standard, same goes for the defendant they all appeal when things don't go the way they want. 

but his appeal can be with an order under Art 44!

[ikke]

What a Joke, He is the court or the court is him....... 

[TKDfella]

I just wonder what this PM would do or say if by some miracle the ex-PM went free?

[Golden Triangle]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system. 

I nearly pissed myself when I read that 

[jerojero]

Bha-Ha-ha-ha! Prayut and Trump ought to get together and form the Best Political Liars Club! 555

[sandemara]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Gen Prayut is of the opinion that it is impossible to intervene in the justice system.

How could anyone feel insecure about the Thai justice system when assurances like this are available from a person who overthrew a legitimate democratically elected government by force of arms?

 

[Dave67]