Thailand’s attorney-general has filed several criminal charges against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra over a controversial rice subsidy scheme. BBC reports:
If found guilty on the charge of negligence, she could be jailed for up to 10 years.
The anti-corruption agency has also called for her to be personally liable for losses to state coffers. Ms Yingluck was removed by a court in May 2014, shortly before the military ousted her elected government.
She was later impeached over the rice subsidy scheme and banned from politics for five years.
Thailand, meanwhile, remains under martial law in the wake of the coup. Ms Yingluck was not at Bangkok’s Supreme Court to hear the indictment.
But the BBC’s Jonathan Head in Bangkok says today’s court filing will seem to her supporters like yet another attempt by the military to crush her politically for whenever Thailand does return to democratic rule.
Under the rice subsidy scheme Ms Yingluck’s Pheu Thai-led government bought rice from Thai farmers at above the market rate, costing the government billions of dollars.
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