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Pheu Thai defends ex-PM Yingluck
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/05/2025
» The ruling Pheu Thai Party has come to the defence of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and is exploring ways to challenge a court order requiring her to pay 10 billion baht in compensation for losses under the controversial rice-pledging scheme over a decade ago.
Jailed, corrupt former commerce minister released on parole
Post Reporters, Published on 02/12/2024
» The Department of Corrections on Monday released on parole former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, who was earlier sentenced to 48 years in prison for corruption in government rice sales, according to an informed source.
NACC investigates old cassava, rice deals
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/11/2022
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) yesterday began an official probe into three separate cases involving cassava sale scandals, as well as a bogus government-to-government rice deal.
Kittiratt faces probe over rice deal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/06/2021
» Former commerce minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong is facing a graft probe following an accusation that he failed to act on an alleged irregularity in the selection of a local supplier for rice exported to Indonesia in 2011.
Court upholds B14.5bn rice scheme redress
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 30/03/2021
» Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and four other officials have been ordered to pay hefty compensation stemming from the Yingluck Shinawatra administration's rice-pledging scheme.
Pair absent from rice trial
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/07/2018
» >> A trial against two fugitive defendants over bogus government-to-government (G2G) rice sales has resumed with the Supreme Court issuing warrants for their arrests.
DSI promises justice for Thaksin's son in KTB case
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 09/11/2017
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is confident it can wrap up the cases in which Panthongtae Shinawatra and three others are accused of laundering money in connection with the Krungthai Bank (KTB) loan scandal before the statute of limitation expires next year.
Amlo freezes assets worth B2.3bn in fake G2G rice deals
King-oua Laohong, Published on 08/11/2017
» The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) on Wednesday resolved to freeze more assets - worth 2.3 billion baht - in connection with fake government-to-government rice deals sealed during the Yingluck Shinawatra government.
End of Shinawatra era
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/08/2017
» The curtain has closed on the Shinawatra clan's grip on Thai politics after former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra followed in the footsteps of her fugitive brother Thaksin on Friday by fleeing a Supreme Court ruling for foreign shores, political analysts say.
Court sets date to rule on 'fake' China rice sale
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/07/2017
» The Supreme Court has set Aug 25 as the date it will rule on a rice-trading case that emerged under the former government of Yingluck Shinawatra involving former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and 27 other individuals and juristic entities.