Eating old rice not stunt to get Yingluck retrial, says minister

On the American marketplace, long-stored pledged grain may be sold.

Phumtham Wechayachai, the minister of commerce, stated on Tuesday that his decision to sell decade-old grain pledged and stored under former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s management and to make a show of eating it was not intended to get her a retrial.

On Monday, Mr. Phumtham responded to reporters ‘ inquiries at Government House regarding his journey to two wheat stores in Surin province.

” That is not my goal. I am responsibility- bound to buy the stored grain… The]Yingluck ] case is not part of my job”, Mr Phumtham said.

The business minister, who is also a deputy prime minister, showed up on Monday at two rice warehouses in Surin, showing that the rice that was kept it for ten years under the Yingluck government, has continued to be edible. In front of investigators who were with him, he consumed cooked wheat from the stores.

Mr Phumtham, a deputy head of the decision Pheu Thai Party, admitted the color of the corn had changed&nbsp, and it was full of dust. But, it could be washed in waters up to 15 days before cooking and then it would be ready for use.

He claimed that after eating the grains the day before, he had no stomach issues and that the design of the particles remained wonderful.

He planned auctions of the pledged corn within the next month, and said the corn could provide the older- rice&nbsp, markets in Africa.

The largest wheat market treatment program in Thai past was the Yingluck rice-pledging system, which ran from 2011 to 2014.

The state purchased grain from farmers for the first time ever for an unlimitable amount of rice at an all-time high price throughout the plan. It&nbsp, resulted in losses&nbsp, totalling hundreds of billions of ringgit.

Yingluck fled the nation in 2017, just before the Supreme Court handed her a five-year prison sentence for failing to stop the government’s sale of corn through her rice-pledging system, which is plagued by fraudulent and corrupt government practices.

Her elder brother, who was once perfect minister, said last month that he believed Yingluck would be able to make a national appearance this time.

Thaksin returned&nbsp, in August next month. In February, he was given a new prison expression and released on parole.