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NACC rejects rice-pledge graft claims

A Public Anti-Corruption Commission official inspects rice stocks at a warehouse in Sukhothai’s Si Samrong district as part of investigation into alleged tampering of rice stocks in 2017. (Photo: Apichit Jinakul)

Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck Shinawatra, and Yaowapa Wongsawat have all survived the National Anti-Corruption Commission's (NACC) consideration of petitions lodged against them in the second part of the rice-pledging scandal.

The three siblings were among 71 parties accused of involvement in the second part of the scandal, while former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, sentenced by the Supreme Court to 42 years in prison in connection with the first part of the rice-pledging scandal, was treated as an eyewitness in this new NACC probe.

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