Govt spending Bt4.2 billion to 'cover up Thaksin's botched policy'

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
Govt spending Bt4.2 billion to 'cover up Thaksin's botched policy'

The government has earmarked Bt4.2 billion under the guise of loan repayment in order to cover up the misnagement of price intervention for longan under the Thaksin Shinawatra administration in 2004.

 

“PM Yingluck Shinawatra is using the taxpayer’s money to whitewash her brother Thaksin,” Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said on Thursday.
Chavanond said the mismanagement happened after the Thaksin administration had allocated Bt3.4 billion to prop up the price for 312,373 tons of longan for nothern farmers.
 
The Nation