Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled Thailand for Singapore - report

[choudens]

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

Equally amazing is that Yingluck had been charged, been to court and was awaiting a verdict and yet the Red Bull heir has not been to court yet.

easy to go with another passport under another name delivered in Montenegro for example like Boss!!

[mark01]

1 hour ago, elliss said:

      UK , has my shilling,  all immigrants welcome . 

If she needs a marriage visa, she just has to call. ????

[Chang_paarp]

27 minutes ago, Nickymaster said:

It seems that Thailand finally got rid of the corrupt Shin clan.


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If you think the Shin clan (corrupt or otherwise) is gone from Thailand you really need to do some reading. They might not be there officially, but their avatars will keep various governments making pronouncements as their control or lack of it  for a decade or more to come.

[eggers]

What a lying cheating bitch?? Typical of her family, going gets rough, exit the building!! How did she manage to leave... more money under the counter!!

So much for her loyal supporters, in end all about ...Me, Me, Me! 

Proves her allegiance to people was all a BIG LIE.....

"Puppeteer from Dubai", whether Pa or Bro, will take care!! 

[Bannoi]

Easy to get into Cambodia Laos or Myanmar without going through official checkpoints then a private plane to Singapore.

 

Very easy if you have the money.

 

 

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thailand's ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad - sources

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family said on Friday.

 

Yingluck, 50, whose family has dominated Thai politics for more than 15 years, failed to show up at court for judgment in a case centred on the multi-billion dollar losses incurred by a rice subsidy scheme for farmers.

 

Overthrown in 2014, Yingluck had faced up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.

 

"She has definitely left Thailand," said one source, who is also a member of the Shinawatra's Puea Thai Party. The sources did not say where she was now.

 

The Supreme Court issued an arrest warrant after saying it did not believe her excuse that she could not attend the court hearing because of an ear problem, but there was no sign of police showing up at her house.

 

"It is possible that she has fled already," Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters.

 

Yingluck's lawyer, Norrawit Lalaeng, said her team had told him on Friday morning she had an "ear fluid imbalance" and could not attend court. He said he was unaware whether she was still in the country. Her spokeswoman declined to comment.

 

Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra, who heads the political clan, was overthrown in a 2006 coup and fled into exile to escape corruption charges that he said were aimed at demolishing the populist movement he founded.

 

The struggle between that movement and a Bangkok-centered royalist and pro-military elite has been at the heart of years of turmoil in Thailand.

 

The verdict against Yingluck was widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition. The Supreme Court said the verdict would now be delivered on Sept. 27.

 

Yingluck last commented on social media on Thursday, saying on her Facebook page that she would not be able to meet supporters at court because of the security measures.

 

She had been banned from travelling abroad at the start of the trial in 2015 and has attended previous hearings.

 

SUPPORTERS GATHER

 

Hundreds of Yingluck supporters had gathered outside the court on Friday where around 4,000 police had been deployed. Some held roses while others wore white gloves with the word "love" on them.

 

If Yingluck fled it would disappoint her supporters and make her opponents feel vindicated, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.

 

"It does not help with Thailand’s division and polarization," he said.

 

Under the rice subsidy programme, Yingluck's administration paid rice farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices. It left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.

Yingluck has said she was only in charge of coming up with the policy but not the day-to-day management of the scheme.

 

In a related case on Friday, the Supreme Court sentenced Yingluck's former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom to 42 years in jail after finding him guilty of falsifying government-to-government rice deals between Thailand and China in 2013.

 

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the coup against Yingluck's government in the name of ending political turmoil, has promised that an election will be held next year.

 

Yingluck had been banned from politics for five years in 2015 by the junta's legislature for alleged graft in the rice-purchasing programme.

 

(Additional reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Donna Airoldi, Jorge Silva, Juarawee Kittisilpa, Panarat Thepgumpant, Panu Wongcha-um, Pracha Hariraksapitak and Suphanida Thakral; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Matthew Tostevin & Simon Cameron-Moore)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-08-25

[ilovebkk12345]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

multi-billion dollar

Dollar?

 

in Thailand we use dollar now?

 

[Jim walker]

Shinawatra  family who represent the overlooked poor of Thailand driving them out of the country just shows how scared the Right wing elite are in Thailand of a single family, who will be arresting  the generals after this coup and sending them to prison for 42 years for giving so much money to the Chinese and Americans for weapons  and trains rather than subsidising the rural farmers in Thailand what is more important people or weapons.    Good luck Yingluck take care and god bless.

[AGareth2]

who aided her?

[lamyai3]

2 hours ago, elliss said:

      UK , has my shilling,  all immigrants welcome . 

Yes, next stop England, to buy a football team. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Would be good to see a Thai government in exile. At least then there can be some opposition. Good luck to her.

[cardinalblue]

Should confiscate all their Thai family assets if found guilty...

 

another "no accountability" feather in their hat 

[choudens]

8 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Would be good to see a Thai government in exile. At least then there can be some opposition. Good luck to her.

A Thai government in exile will be the best against our Great Leader!

 

[hobz]

4 hours ago, Xaos said:

They were following her every step, she was on watch but managet to take a flight? Yeh right

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Exactly, this is clearly the result of a deal between her and the junta. She will leave quitely and the junta remains in power. 

Throwing her in jail would jeopardise the status quo because massive risk for massive protests and overthrow of government. This way everything is kind of peaceful and junta remains in power and yingluck stays out of jail.

[jaiyen]

"She has an ear fluid imbalance".   There is no such thing !!!  The fluid is sealed in the ear, as we all know.  Pathetic excuse.  Hope she has done a runner. Best solution for all.  An admission of guilt.

[thailand49]

Corruption?  I don't know if she is guilty or not but from my perspective there is a lot more corruption going around than just her. As the saying goes " let him who has no sin be the first to throw the first stone "  I know that is wrong but as close as I can get. I read a year or so back at story that the current PM now had something like over a billion in a foreign bank. The guy was a retired General? 

Take the blinders off and anyone with any sense could see where this was going from the beginning. If you are surprise she had a plan B in place wake up and smell the coffee.

There is a storm coming after this year and it will sweep everyone into it but regardless I'm here for the long haul.

[Hereinthailand]

I am no fan of the Shin clan but I fear hell will be unleashed in thailand for many years to come now and the average thai person will be the losers, not those at the top.

[Golden Triangle]

I might just watch the miniscule generals TV show tonight to try and judge his mood, maybe he will come on doing a little jig or something. It's all a bit of an anti-climax really, but I think she did the right thing, her & her bro can stir up all sorts of anti junta stuff while relaxing in the sunshine.

 

Then once their party gets back into power in a few years and the illegal junta sent off to Thailand's equivalent of the salt mines they can be given amnesty and retake their rightful places running this great country  

 

 

Edited August 25, 2017 by Golden Triangle
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[alzack]

Good luck Yingluck you and brov form a government in exile that's the way to go uk would have you as we Did with Holland,Belgium,Norway, Poland Chez in the war good luck

[DiamondKing]

GREAT NEWS Well done 

Now relax and enjoy your money YS

[alzack]

14 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

"She has an ear fluid imbalance".   There is no such thing !!!  The fluid is sealed in the ear, as we all know.  Pathetic excuse.  Hope she has done a runner. Best solution for all.  An admission of guilt.

you speak with forked tounge

[alzack]

1 minute ago, DiamondKing said:

GREAT NEWS Well done 

Now relax and enjoy your money YS

 

Just now, alzack said:

you speak with forked tounge

not guilty, politically motivated 100%

[hansnl]

33 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Would be good to see a Thai government in exile. At least then there can be some opposition. Good luck to her.

A shin government ????

[snoop1130]

PM admits he has no idea about Ms Yingluck’s whereabouts

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha admitted on Friday that he had no idea about the whereabouts of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, but he reminded her that she might lose the chance to appeal the verdict of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Offices.

 

The prime minister said he was informed by officials concerned that Ms Yingluck failed to show up to hear the court’s verdict because of sickness, but the court decided to issue an arrest warrant against her.

 

Insisting that the court case is within the jurisdiction of the judiciary and it has nothing to do with him, he, however, said he had ordered security officials to investigate whether she is still in the country or went abroad or whether she is sick as claimed.

 

He admitted that he had expected Ms Yingluck to show her courage to attend the court’s hearing to listen to the court’s verdict.

 

However, he noted that he was not worried whether the former prime minister would finally show up at the court or not, but warned that Ms Yingluck, in her capacity as the defendant, should be worried because, according to the new Constitution, the defendant has the right to appeal the judgement of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Offices.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-admits-no-idea-ms-yinglucks-whereabouts/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-8-25

[alzack]

25 minutes ago, choudens said:

A Thai government in exile will be the best against our Great Leader!

 

absolutly right lets hope her and brov do it

[hansnl]

25 minutes ago, choudens said:

A Thai government in exile will be the best against our Great Leader!

 

Are you quite certain?

 

[snoop1130]

Sa Kaeo immigration officers step up vehicle checks in search for Yingluck

By The Nation

 

 

Immigration police and troops at the Aranyaprathet border checkpoint in Sa Kaeo province on Friday stepped up their checks of vehicles leaving the country as part of the search for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

 

The ex-PM had failed earlier in the day to attend the Supreme Court to hear the judgement in the rice-pledging case against her.

 

At 10am, Sa Kaeo immigration police chief Pol Colonel Benjapol Rodsawat issued an urgent order for officials manning the checkpoint to strictly check all vehicles leaving the Kingdom.

 

Following the order, the immigration police and troops opened all vehicles to check the passengers. They especially examined vehicles with Cambodian licence plates.

 

Benjapol also sought help from Colonel Nirot Thongmuan, commander of the 12th Ranger Taskforce, Maj-General Hathaitep Kirati-angkul, commander of the 19th Army Circle, and Aranyaprathet district chief Soawanit Suriyakul to intensively check vehicles travelling on border roads in the district.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30324883

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-8-25

[realenglish1]

This whole thing is politically motivated so I am not surprised she has fled

[brewsterbudgen]

A shin government ????

An elected one.

[wvavin]

Looks like Singapore is another fugitive meeting point.