Prosecutors file documents in Yingluck court case
Public prosecutors on Wednesday submitted 376 pages of documents to the Supreme Court to substantiate claims of wrongdoing by former premier Yingluck Shinawatra and others concerning the previous government’s rice-pledging scheme and allegedly fake export deals.
Surasak Trirattrakul, from the Office of the Attorney-General, said prosecutors had submitted 211 pages of documents to the court concerning Yingluck’s alleged negligence of official duties while implementing the rice-pledging scheme.
According to the prosecutors, Yingluck’s wrongdoing resulted in corruption and massive financial damage to the state.
Regarding a related matter of fake government-to-government rice export deals, 165 pages of documents have been submitted to the court by prosecutors who allege wrongdoing by former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and others.
The cases are related because the previous government allegedly announced the government-to-government export deals, which turned out to be bogus, to justify extension of the rice-pledging scheme.
Yingluck and other defendants in these two cases have already presented their closing statements before the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry has ordered provincial governors to ensure that local administrative organisations do not use their state budgets to organise trips to Bangkok as part of their efforts to show moral support for Yingluck on August 25.
These local administrative organisations are said to have organised training and field trips to Bangkok, enabling large numbers of Yingluck supporters to show up on “judgement day”.
Deputy premier Prawit Wongsuwan said the government would take precautionary measures to prevent any unrest around the Supreme Court’s premises on August 25 because several thousand Yingluck supporters were expected to show up.