Yingluck pleads with court to revoke Bt35-bn compensation order
FORMER PRIME minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Thursday that the government’s order for her to pay Bt35 billion in compensation would leave her destitute and cause her to suffer severely.
She has called on the Administrative Court to revoke the administrative order issued by the Finance Ministry seeking massive damages in connection with her government’s rice-pledging scheme.
The ministry’s civil damages fact-finding committee earlier concluded that the scheme incurred an estimated Bt178.5 billion in losses to the state, finding that Yingluck, as prime minister at the time, was responsible for 20 per cent of the damage, which amounted to Bt35.7 billion.
She is accused of negligence and for failing to stop damages incurred by the scheme.
“If my assets are seized, I will suffer severely. This will be a huge debt that I will not be able to pay during my lifetime. I will be left destitute. The suffering cannot be explained,” Yingluck said in a shaking voice.
The former prime minister added that the rest of her family would also suffer if her assets are seized.
