BANGKOK: Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appeared before the Supreme Court to review evidence in a case involving rice subsidies that haemorrhaged billions of dollars and could see her jailed for up to 10 years for negligence.
Yingluck’s flagship election policy helped sweep her to office in a landslide in 2011, but its failure saw her banned from politics for five years in January by a legislature appointed by the generals who toppled her government.
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