The government has adhered to the law in demanding former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay for damages in her government's rice-pledging scheme, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Sunday. Gen Prayut said this on this return this morning from attending the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York. A government committee pursuing civil liabilities against wrongdoers in the state sector, chaired by Manas Jamveha, director-general of the Comptroller-General’s Department, has decided to order Ms Yingluck to pay 35.7 billion baht in damages from the rice-pledging scheme. Mr Manas said on Friday his panel found Ms Yingluck, who chaired the National Rice Policy Committee, had committed gross negligence that resulted in 180 billion baht in losses from the 2013-14 rice crop. The seven projects ranged in cost from eight million baht to 25 million baht.

Source: Bangkok Post September 25, 2016 04:18 UTC