Yingluck no show for formal charge in Supreme Court
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Former prime minister Yingluck Shinwatra was formally charged in the Supreme Court in the rice-pledging negligence case Thursday but she refused to turn up at the court.
By normal practice, the former prime minister was supposed to meet the public prosecutor in charge of the case would take her to the court for formal arraignment.
Instead, she sent her lawyer, Norawich Larleng to submit her letter to the attorney general, explaining her reason not to meet the public prosecutor.
The letter said process Thursday was for the public prosecutor to file charge against her in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Office. As a result, she did not have to be there when the arraignment was made.
The Nation
