Thai anti-graft commission investigates Yingluck
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Thailand’s anti-corruption authorities launched an investigation against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday in a new setback to her government following weeks of mass opposition protests.
The move came as officials pleaded with police to arrest protest leaders who have threatened to take the prime minister and her Cabinet ministers captive.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission said its inquiry against Yingluck would probe possible negligence of duty by her over a controversial subsidy scheme for rice farmers.
The panel said it would consider whether Yingluck had violated criminal law, but did not say what punishment she could face if found guilty.
The panel will charge 15 other people, including a former commerce minister, with corruption linked to the rice programme, commission spokesman Vicha Mahakun said.
The scheme has been strongly criticized by Yingluck’s opponents, who have occupied major intersections in the capital since Monday in a bid to force her elected government from office and install an appointed “people’s council.”
The protesters aim to rein in the political dominance of Yingluck’s billionaire brother, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whom they accuse of controlling the government from self-exile.
Critics say the rice programme, designed to shore up Yingluck’s popularity in her party’s northern heartlands, is riddled with corruption and has left the country with a mountain of unsold rice.
Yingluck has called an election for February 2 .
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