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    NACC indicts ex-PM on corruption charges

    The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has unanimously agreed to press corruption charges against ex-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in the rice pledging scheme.

    NACC member Wicha Mahakhun said the commission decided to indict the former prime minister who was the chair person of the Rice Policy Committee when she was in office. Ms Yingluck was alleged of abusing her power and causing great damages to the Thai rice system.

    The former PM was aware of the corruption but insisted on continuing the scheme. She had the power to stop or cancel the program but she did nothing, the official said.

    The commission has submit a report on the ex-PM's charges to the Attorney-General who will request the Supreme Court to decide on her case.

    สำนักข่่าวแห่งชา ิ : NACC indicts ex-PM on corruption charges

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    Shocked, I am.

    Didn't see that coming.

    I wonder whether Yingluck will return to Thailand after her European trip.

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    Lets hope not eh!!

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    BLAH, BLAH, BLAH... Now explain why in the hell is the DEAR SWEET GENERAL allowing her to make a runner....? That is what she has planned all along...! SHE WILL NOT BE BACK.

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    Perhaps because the CC the EC and the NACC already look corrupt enough and the international condemnation if she is imprisoned would be intolerable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thormaturge View Post
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    Perhaps because the CC the EC and the NACC already look corrupt enough and the international condemnation if she is imprisoned would be intolerable.
    Absolutely correct. Thai ways, always leave a powerful adversary a path of retreat.

    They are letting her go in the very hope that she emulates her brother and does not return for the reason you have already given. If she does not return they will of course say it is a sign of guilt and their job will be done. If she returns she will be a major embarrassment to them and they will find themselves in an awkward position. And of course, if she returns she will become a martyr in the eyes of her reporters.

    Strange how corruption charges against the army or their political wing , the Democrats , never get off the ground. wonder why that is ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thormaturge View Post
    Shocked, I am.

    Didn't see that coming.

    I wonder whether Yingluck will return to Thailand after her European trip.
    .....certainly, a Dubai stopover is in order.

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    Of course she won't return, the whole point of these charges are to force her in exile.

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    Ousted Thai PM Yingluck vows not to flee

    BANGKOK, July 18, 2014 (AFP) - Thailand's deposed former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday ruled out going into self-exile to avoid possible criminal charges, after the country's junta gave her permission to travel overseas.

    In her first news conference since the army seized power in May, Yingluck said she would fly to Paris for a "private trip".

    She is expected to attend the 65th birthday party of her elder brother, the fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, on July 26.

    Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon turned populist politician, was ousted in an earlier coup in 2006 and later fled Thailand to avoid prison for a corruption conviction.

    But Yingluck insisted that she would not follow in her brother's footsteps.

    "I am a Thai citizen who should have rights and freedoms like any other Thais. I want to reassure you that I will not abandon my fellow Thais and I'm ready to come back to Thailand," she said.

    Yingluck, who was indicted for dereliction of duty a day after she was removed from office, could face criminal charges linked to a loss-making rice subsidy scheme.

    The National Anti-Corruption Commission said Thursday that it was forwarding that case to the attorney general's office for possible referral to the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions.

    Yingluck insisted again on her innocence and questioned whether the commission's probe met international standards.

    "The investigation is very fast unlike other political cases," she said.

    Yingluck said the panel "chose to hear one-sided facts" by considering testimony from her opponents while rejecting other key witnesses.

    The junta said Thursday that Yingluck had been given approval to leave the country for the first time since the coup because she had not opposed the military takeover.

    Yingluck, Thailand's first female premier, was removed from office in a controversial court ruling shortly before the army toppled the remnants of her elected government.

    She was among hundreds of people summoned and temporarily detained by the junta afterwards.

    The army said the coup was necessary to end months of political unrest that left 28 people dead, but Thaksin's supporters accuse the military of using the protests as an excuse for a power grab.

    The junta has ruled out holding new elections until around October 2015.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    So, who gets the family home in CM?

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    She is just a bargaining chip, imo their real goal is neutralising yaowapa and yingluck, unlike her brother, is not a coward, so she will be back sooner or later.

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    Quote Originally Posted by longway View Post
    She is just a bargaining chip, imo their real goal is neutralising yaowapa and yingluck, unlike her brother, is not a coward, so she will be back sooner or later.
    I'm inclined to think you may be right.

    ""I am a Thai citizen who should have rights and freedoms like any other Thais. I want to reassure you that I will not abandon my fellow Thais and I'm ready to come back to Thailand,"

    If she returns the junta have a real problem; a martyr.
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    of course she will be back.
    she will have plenty of time in the years that come to flee.
    perhaps she will visit the next Olympic Games.

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    Yingluck Shinawatra Says She Isn't Planning on Going Into Exile

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    July 18, 2014 8:30 a.m. ET

    BANGKOKFormer Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she won't use an overseas vacation as an opportunity to go into exile and vowed to defend her handling of a controversial rice subsidy after an anticorruption panel recommended legal action be taken against her.

    "I insist that I'm not going to abandon the Thai people and I will return to Thailand." Ms. Yingluck said.
    Ms. Yingluck's Friday comments were her first since Thailand's military staged a coup nearly two months ago, saying the intervention was necessary to return stability to the divided country.

    Late Thursday, the National Anti-Corruption Commission unanimously recommended that legal action be taken against Ms. Yingluck. It said it would forward all documents and its opinion that Ms. Yingluck mishandled the subsidy program to the office of the attorney general. That office will later make a decision on whether criminal charges will be filed with a court.

    Just hours earlier, Thailand's military rulers gave her permission to leave the country on for a vacation. Ms. Yingluck said the timing was a coincidence and rejected speculation she might use the opportunity to flee.

    Ms. Yingluck has defended the rice subsidy, saying its goal was to raise rice-farmer incomes. But the program, which started in 2011, resulted in more than $9.2 billion in paper losses for the government after rice prices tumbled, which left the country with stockpiles.

    On May 8, a day after the Thai Constitutional Court removed her from office for abuse of power, the antigraft commission found Ms. Yingluck guilty of mishandling the rice program. The military declared a coup on May 22.

    Her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who is also an ousted Thai prime minister, was removed from office in a 2006 coup and moved overseas to avoid a corruption conviction, which he said was politically motivated.
    On Friday, Ms. Yingluck accused the anticorruption commission of being biased against her.

    "I felt the antigraft commission appeared to be reviewing evidence and witnesses that showed apparent animosity against me." Ms. Yingluck said Friday. "I've tried to present additional evidence and witnesses but the commission simply turned them down."

    An antigraft commission spokesman couldn't be reached for a response.
    If the case were to go to the court and Ms. Yingluck were found guilty of negligence, she could face a maximum jail term of 10 years.

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    Yingluck could have a pleasant life in Europe. She could apply for asylum in any country, but probably would use the UK where her brother owns several houses in Surrey and London. It would be a simple matter to construct a claim based on a well founded fear judicial proceedings against her are politically motivated, not least because she was deposed in a coup.

    The thing is, in Europe she would be a non- entity doomed to spend her time wandering around Harrods and Selfridges pondering upon where she can get her next somtam fix.

    Folk think living the life of a millionaire in exile is all roses but it's really quite tough for these poor wretches to adapt to civilization having been brought up amid squalor, unrelenting heat and the cacophony of a million cretins behaving like twats. Take them from all that filth and chaos and the poor dears simply waste away.

    Also, no one talks to them except other Thai but that would piss her off because they can return anytime and she couldn't. And her English is crap so the Brits would just treat her like any other immigrant.

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    She is welcomed back by 12+ million voters. How many you have?

    How many politicians you know made mistakes, in Your country, are they going to be jailed or expelled?

    She made good decisions many more than bad. There would be no problem with flawed rice subsidy policy (it would have been corrected) if India govt had not suddenly altered their policy, flooding the market.

    This photo from these troubled times. Welcome back Yingluck, whenever possible.



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    I wouldn't be surprised if she was planning to complete a course in hairdressing in some Parisian suburb. Something more in keeping with her life skills.

    As a politician she is a non entity, possibly only surpassed by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian maverick, witless tubby and shagger of underage prostitutes.

    Laundering money through one's account to fund riots in a capital city would normally raise an eyebrow or two in government circles but of course not if you possess a smile which could melt tungsten.

    A 'business woman' with no business sense is just what the country ordered and dutifully received, hence the country's resulting financial buffoonery.

    She could of course divert what attention she has left in that pea sized brain to perhaps opening a branch of jewellery shops across the nation titled 'Ying's Bling'. It does appear to have some sort of attractive ring to it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Lick
    Laundering money through one's account to fund riots in a capital city
    You really believe anything you read (possibly hear?) on that yellow channel or their twitter. Moon made of yellow cheese?


    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Lick
    A 'business woman' with no business sense
    However she was by her own right at the top or near the top in major companies and she did not start from the top.

    Maybe you just hate her, or her brother, or the idea.


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    I'd bang her

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kurgen View Post
    I'd bang her
    Apparently she's good at that. About 1,000,000 plus people who depend upon growing rice have been fucked by her in the last few years.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exit Strategy View Post
    However she was by her own right at the top or near the top in major companies and she did not start from the top.

    Businesses owned by her Brother or the family where she no doubt but in as many appearances in the board room and made as many decisions as she did in parliament.

    Makes a good model for Burberry though..

    Head up to CM Exit, there a wealth of pretty pale flatfaces half her age you can drool over for a fraction of the cost.

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    This makes interesting reading from back in Feb this year.

    Burmese smugglers get rich on Yingluck Shinawatra's 13 billion Thai rice subsidies
    A populist subsidy on rice by Thailand's ruling party is enabling smugglers from neighbouring Burma to make a quick buck at the expense of Thai taxpayers


    A rice storage warehouse north of the Thai capital Bangkok

    For the rice smugglers of Myawaddy, business has never been better.
    A scrappy, dusty Burmese border town, Myawaddy has long been notorious as an illicit trading hub for drugs, guns and precious gems.
    Now, Myawaddy has become a centre for the trafficking of a more nutritious but scarcely less profitable product, as rice smugglers take advantage of the substantially higher grain prices on offer in neighbouring Thailand.
    In Myawaddy, 50 kilos of rice sells for 16. But in Thailand, the same amount is worth 30, a consequence of the ruling Pheu Thai Partys controversial subsidies to the rice farmers who make up much of its support base.
    Known as the rice-pledging scheme, the populist policy has cost the government more than 13 billion, prompting the IMF to warn that the scheme is undermining the economy.

    But the rice subsidies are also a huge source of anger among the largely middle-class anti-government protesters who have taken to the streets of Bangkok to try and topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her Pheu Thai party from power.
    They allege that not only has taxpayers money been squandered to buy votes for Pheu Thai, but that millions has disappeared into the pockets of the politicians and officials overseeing the scheme.
    Last month, Thailands National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) announced a probe into the rice-pledging policy, only adding to the pressure Ms Yingluck is under.
    The prime minister was forced to call a snap election that took place on Sunday - which was boycotted and labelled as illegitimate by the opposition - in a failed attempt to end the political crisis gripping Thailand. Results are yet to be announced. Ms Yinglucks role as head of the national rice committee means she could face criminal charges arising from the NACCs investigation.


    Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (left of the blue pillar) visits a rice storage warehouse

    The commission is ready to charge 15 other people, including a former commerce minister, with corruption linked to the rice programme, spokesman Vicha Mahakun told a news conference.
    On Tuesday, China ditched a huge rice deal to buy 1.2m tonnes of rice from Thailand, around a fifth of the countrys annual exports, due to uncertainty over its agricultural sector.
    While the subsidies have played a major part in causing the turmoil engulfing the Thai capital, for the rice traffickers the policy has resulted in huge gains.
    Boats loaded with what the smugglers coyly describe as chicken feed travel daily across the narrow stretch of the Moei River that separates Myawaddy in Burma from the neighbouring Thai town of Mae Sot.
    On the outskirts of Myawaddy, The Telegraph watched as lorries pulled into a compound close to the river bank guarded by Burmese soldiers. Sacks of rice were swiftly unloaded and transferred to waiting boats.
    We started sending chicken feed to Thailand in big quantities a couple of years ago, said the officer in charge of the soldiers. Its transported mostly at night. Generally, well send 100 sacks at a time.
    Each sack is 50 kilos.
    Some enterprising individuals sling sacks of rice on their backs and simply wade across the Moei River.
    It is the equivalent of smuggling tea into China, or opium to Afghanistan, because until 2012 Thailand was the worlds largest rice exporter.
    That began to change following the governments decision in October 2011 to pay almost double the market price for rice to farmers. The policy was conceived as a reward for the rural voters who make up much of the ruling partys power base.
    But it was also a highly ambitious attempt to corner the global market in rice, with the government gambling on stockpiling vast amounts of grain it could later sell at a huge profit.
    The scheme, though, has instead backfired in spectacular fashion. A worldwide slump in rice prices means that the government has spent almost 13.5 billion buying rice it is unable to sell at a profit, leaving it with a vast mountain - 18 million tons - of unsold grain, nearly as much as the country produces in a year.



    A small but bustling port on the Moei River just a few kilometres north of the Mae Sot/Myawaddy border checkpoint

    Meanwhile India and Vietnam have now overtaken Thailand as the worlds leading rice exporters.
    And with prices for rice far higher than in neighbouring countries, up to 750,000 tons of rice is being smuggled into Thailand annually, where it is passed off as locally-grown grain so that it can be sold to the government at the artificial price.
    The government is running into serious financial trouble from the scheme, said Dr Nipon Puapongsakorn, an economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute who has made a study of the subsidy policy.
    Rice isnt like wine; you cant keep it forever. The longer the government stockpiles it, the more it will depreciate in value. With the average salary in Myawaddy just 2.50 a day, there is plenty of incentive for people to smuggle rice: a 42-year-old smuggler, who gave his name as Brother Tone said he could earn up to 60 a day, almost 25 times as much.
    Nor do the smugglers have to worry about getting caught. As long as you have permission from the army and pay the right people, its no problem. No one goes to prison for this in Burma, said Mr Tone.
    Stopping the smuggled flow is a near impossible task for the Thai authorities. We have 59 officials to cover almost 340 miles of the border, said Supachai Sasomboon, deputy director of the Mae Sot customs post. So its very hard to police the border.
    Thailands economy is now under mounting pressure from both the influx of smuggled grain and the spiralling costs of the rice-pledging scheme itself.
    The credit agency Moodys has already warned that it could lead to Thailands rating being downgraded.
    Worse still for Ms Yingluck, the policy has come to symbolise what the anti-government protesters regard as Pheu Thais abuse of power.
    People see rice-smuggling as a victimless crime, said Dr Nipon. But its the Thai taxpayers who are suffering.
    Burmese smugglers get rich on Yingluck Shinawatra's 13 billion Thai rice subsidies - Telegraph

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    Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Kurgen View Post
    I'd bang her
    Apparently she's good at that. About 1,000,000 plus people who depend upon growing rice have been fucked by her in the last few years.....
    Behind that lovely smiling face and faux sense of a people's PM is something else.

    Remembering:
    She's a Thai politician
    Traditional influential/powerful familial background

    Not a mix to stir benevolent models, but a more common one amongst Thai elite circles. This type has cycling throughout the Thai power infrastructure forever.

    Might you expect anything different?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Necron99
    Businesses owned by her Brother or the family
    Naturally after uni (CM and Kentucky State) she got into more challenging positions in family business; that's how family businesses work.

    You can't win here... If she wasn't capable, you think that your "evil mastermind Voldemort na Dubai" would have given her any power? They both are either stupid or smart and the evidence is ROI and increased business value. She was successful in her work.

    Quote Originally Posted by Necron99
    but in as many appearances in the board room and made as many decisions as she did in parliament
    Eh, you know because you were in those boardrooms? Interesting

    And do tell which decisions she made in parliament, and which are bad?

    No she is not at her best at public speeches - your usual career politicians are. She is not one of that lot. One more reason to respect her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exit Strategy
    Originally Posted by Mr Lick Laundering money through one's account to fund riots in a capital city You really believe anything you read (possibly hear?) on that yellow channel or their twitter. Moon made of yellow cheese?

    The Department for Special Investigation found that from 28 April 2009 to May 2010, 150 million baht was deposited into one of her accounts while 166 million baht was withdrawn. On 28 April 2010 alone, 144 million baht was withdrawn.[21]


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