No favoritism found in the B240m initiative, according to unanimous court rulings.
PUBLISHED: 4 Mar 2024 at 13 :11
The Supreme Court cleared fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and five people of corruption and cooperation on Monday in the granting of a 240 million ringgit campaign to promote her president’s$ 2 trillion ringgit infrastructure projects.
For acquittal, the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions voted overwhelmingly 9 to 0. In the application of the public relations job, it decided that it did not see any intentions to favor any celebration.
The court also revoked the , recently issued subpoena in this case for Yingluck’s imprisonment.
Yingluck, former prime minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, Suranand Vejjajiva’s then-secretary-general, Matichon Plc, Siam Sport Syndicate Plc, and Ravi Lohtong were before accused by the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
In connection with the 2013″ Fair to Thailand’s Potential Thailand 2020″ campaign to promote system development tasks, 240 million baht was allocated to them.
Among other things, the plan included exhibits and seminars.
The first three defendants, Yingluck, Mr. Niwatthamrong, and Mr. Suranand, supposedly abused their power by omitting to hold public bids for the job from late August 2013 to March 2014, according to the lawsuit. They were later identified as the fourth and fifth defendants, .
The first three plaintiffs contracted the third to carry out the government’s plan in 12 counties to promote infrastructure projects, which Yingluck’s government intended to finance with a 2 trillion baht loan.
The show was canceled when the Constitutional Court decided that poposed legislation that would allow the government to acquire the sum was legal. The NACC found the campaign’s 240 million baht to be useless.
Yingluck Shinawatra was cleared of malfeasance in her 2011 transfer to the National Security Council ( NSC ) secretary-general by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions in December 2023.
Yingluck, 57, has been a runaway since August 2017 when she failed to appear in court for the checking of its decision on a cost of dereliction of duty in a rice-pledging program that caused at least 500 billion ringgit in deficits, some of it from fraud.
She was later given a five-year jail sentence. In the rice-pledging event, there is still a subpoena for her arrest.