Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced to five years in absentia

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Former prime minister-turned-fugitive was not present in court, which sentenced her to five years over subsidy scandal.Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been charged with corruption over a rice subsidy case [Reuters]

Thailand’s Supreme Court finds former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of negligence in a rice subsidy case, sentencing her in absentia to five years in jail. Tiếp tục đọc “Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced to five years in absentia”

Former Thai PM Yingluck fled to Dubai via Cambodia, Singapore: Party members

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File photo of ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra. AFP/LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA

BANGKOK: Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison.

Puea Thai Party sources said Yingluck left Thailand last week and flew via Singapore to Dubai where her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra who lives in self-imposed exile to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for corruption, has a home. Tiếp tục đọc “Former Thai PM Yingluck fled to Dubai via Cambodia, Singapore: Party members”