BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's anti-graft agency indicted 250 former lawmakers on Tuesday, a member of the body said, in a ruling that will further erode the influence of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The decision comes less than a month after Thaksin's sister, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, was banned from politics for five years by the junta-appointed legislature stacked with former or serving officers of the military, which has twice toppled governments led by her family.
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