OAG is letting Yingluck off the hook
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Re: "Corruption, Yingluck and rice scheme", Thai Talk, September 11.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission and the Office of the Attorney-General seem at loggerheads about trivialities rather than issues of substance.
While the former insists that ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra must be brought to court for losing the country more than Bt500 billion through her government’s rice price-pledging scheme, the latter argues that, despite corruption in every step of the process, Yingluck is not to be prosecuted.
Yingluck, who also chaired the National Rice Policy Committee, looks likely to escape blame for the damage done to the country.
In the past, cases refused by the attorney-general have been taken up by anti-corruption agency, leading to successful prosecutions at the Supreme Court. But this time it looks like the attorney-general is going to leave us disappointed – again.
Vint Chavala
