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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jintamas Saksornchai

Thailand's ex-Prime Minister Yingluck ordered to pay for losses from a rice subsidy program

Thailand Politics - (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Thai court on Thursday ordered exiled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay more than 10 billion baht ($304 million) to compensate for losses incurred by a money-losing rice farming subsidy program that her administration had implemented more than a decade ago.

The Supreme Administrative Court partially reversed a 2021 court ruling that cleared her. It found her guilty of severe negligence in relation to rice sales to other countries and said she failed to act on many government agencies’ warnings of possible corruption.

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