Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled Thailand for Singapore - report

[baboon]

5 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

The junta let her go. 

 

Just as they did with Thaksin letting him go to the Olympics. 
 

It's all a con mate.

When do you think the aiding and abetting trials will begin...?

[hansnl]

41 minutes ago, up-country_sinclair said:

Is there really anyone who didn't see this coming?

 

 

When she issued her advise to her followers to stay home, I knew she was probably ending her stay in Thailand.

[hansnl]

1 minute ago, Dave67 said:

19 Military coups would indicate that is incorrect

Well, maybe do some reading?

[choff56]

10 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

There's no way she could have gone anywhere without the knowledge and approval of the junta.

Money rules in Thailand, you get what you pay for.

[baboon]

4 minutes ago, djjamie said:

Finally the Shinawatra trait kicked in. Run away from accountability as fast as you possible can. 

You are not even convincing yourself any longer, let alone any of us.

[RichardColeman]

Yep, I always run off to Singapore when I feel ill.

[Jip99]

The act of someone who is as guilty as sin........  I wonder where she picked up that fleeing habit from ?

[Dave67]

3 minutes ago, hansnl said:

Well, maybe do some reading?

I've actually read a few books that are not available in Thailand

[Dave67]

Just now, Father Fintan Stack said:

Don't panic guys, she's only gone to Singapore to see a competent doctor about her earache.

 

Nothing to see here. 

 

Return ticket for 27/9

[AGareth2]

2 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Yep, I always run off to Singapore when I feel ill.

excellent medical facilities

good shopping as well

maybe there was a can't miss sale?

[starky]

10 minutes ago, DeaconJohn said:

Maybe so, but the Shinawatra clan was conning Thailand long before the junta was.

Which Junta? theres been quite a few, far more than dodgy Shin governments it could be said. Chicken or the egg?

[billd766]

10 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

The junta let her go. 

 

Just as they did with Thaksin letting him go to the Olympics. 
 

It's all a con mate.

 

Do you really believe that the junta let Thaksin go to the Olympics?

 

Try researching who was in power at the time and you may be surprised to find that it was Somchai Wongsawat who by coincidence just happens to be Thaksin's brother in law, and certainly NOT anything to do with the junta.

 

If you want to post rubbish at least try to get some of it right.

[Ron19]

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[maxpower]

11 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

We don't actually KNOW (yet) that she's left the country. Maybe she has or maybe she's sick or maybe she's just sick 'n tired of the whole schmozzle & decided to have a day or 2 off & up yours!

Yes we do. She was spotted in Victoria Street SG Starbucks with two men wearing black suits.

[bendejo]

Her brother left in 2008 to visit the Olympics in Beijing, maybe she's going to join him.  Is he still sitting in the stadium?

She definitely knew which way the wind would blow.

 

 

[baboon]

13 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

The act of someone who is as guilty as sin........  I wonder where she picked up that fleeing habit from ?

Facilitated by...?

[webfact]

Thai junta says ousted PM Yingluck could have fled the country

By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Panarat Thepgumpanat

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military junta raised the possibility that ousted prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra had fled the country on Friday after she failed to show up for the verdict in a negligence trial.

 

Yingluck, 50, whose family has dominated Thai politics for more than 15 years, faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty in a case centred on the multi-billion dollar losses incurred by a rice subsidy scheme for farmers.

 

The Supreme Court set a new date of Sept. 27 for the verdict, and said it would seek an arrest warrant for Yingluck as it did not believe her excuse that she could not attend the court hearing because of an ear problem.

 

"It is possible that she has fled already," Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan told reporters as he left a meeting in Bangkok. He had earlier said only that he had no confirmation of her whereabouts.

 

Yingluck's lawyer, Norrawit Lalaeng, said her team had told him on Friday morning she had an "ear fluid imbalance" and could not attend court. He said he was unaware whether she was still in the country. Her spokeswoman declined to comment.

 

"We think that the defendant is hiding or has fled," a statement from a Supreme Court judge said.

 

Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra, who heads the political clan, was overthrown in a 2006 coup and fled into exile to escape corruption charges that he said were aimed at demolishing the populist movement he founded.

 

That movement, pitted against a Bangkok-centred royalist and pro-military elite, has been at the heart of years of turmoil.

 

The verdict against Yingluck is widely seen as having the potential to reignite tensions, though the junta has largely snuffed out open opposition.

 

Yingluck last commented on social media on Thursday, saying on her Facebook page that she would not be able to meet supporters at court because of the security measures. The doors of her home were shut and local media said there had been no movement there since the early morning.

 

SUPPORTERS GATHER

 

Hundreds of Yingluck supporters had gathered outside the court on Friday where around 4,000 police had been deployed and checkpoints had been set up. The trial has taken around two years and Yingluck has shown up for previous hearings.

 

Yingluck's failure to show up at court would not help reduce Thailand's polarisation, said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University.

 

Her supporters would be disappointed and feel that an injustice remained while her opponents would feel vindicated, he said.

 

Under the rice subsidy programme, Yingluck's administration paid farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices for their rice. The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.

 

Yingluck has said she was only in charge of coming up with the policy but not the day-to-day management of the scheme. Her administration was removed in a 2014 military coup.

 

In the northeastern province Khon Kaen, a Shinawatra stronghold, a leader of the red shirt political movement that supports Yingluck said her supporters felt frustrated. Some had been preparing for protests against the verdict.

 

Shinawatra's Puea Thai Party has said it does not support acts of violence. Some supporters outside the court in Bangkok held roses while others wore white gloves with the word "love" on them.

 

The court is due to rule in the separate case on Friday of Yingluck's former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom who is accused of falsifying government-to-government rice deals between Thailand and China in 2013.

 

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the 2014 coup against Yingluck's government in the name of ending political turmoil, has promised that an election will be held next year.

 

Regardless of whether she is found guilty or innocent, Yingluck will not be able to run in that election because she was banned from politics for five years in 2015 by the junta's legislature for alleged graft in the rice-purchasing programme.

 

If Yingluck is found guilty she has 30 days to appeal and is expected to post bail, avoiding any immediate prison time.

 

(Additional reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Donna Airoldi, Jorge Silva, Juarawee Kittisilpa, Panarat Thepgumpant, Panu Wongcha-um, Pracha Hariraksapitak and Suphanida Thakral; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Matthew Tostevin & Simon Cameron-Moore)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-08-25

[maxpower]

14 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

The act of someone who is as guilty as sin........  I wonder where she picked up that fleeing habit from ?

You will find it in the Thai culture manual page 17 rule 32. Its used widely by bus and truck drivers.

[4MyEgo]

1 hour ago, up-country_sinclair said:

Is there really anyone who didn't see this coming?

 

 

So glad she saw it coming and fled, because we know the blood hounds are not only after her.

[Xaos]

She was on watch, so how? They let her slip

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[NanLaew]

31 minutes ago, Dave67 said:

I doubt she went to the airport

There's a secret tunnel disguised as a wardrobe in the Pattaya tunnel. That's what took the extra 5 months before they could open the tunnel (at 3.30 PM this afternoon). She's off to Narnia already.

[4MyEgo]

57 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

If true,this is the best result that the Government could ever hope for,

they will be very pleased,solves all their problems surrounding her.  

and they never wanted to jail her as she would become a martyr. 

 

regards worgeordie

Hence the reason they didn't take her passport, ah 30,000,000 baht bail will do nicely thanks, oh and make sure you get out before the verdict.

 

 

 

[Oxx]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Supreme Court set a new date of Sept. 27 for the verdict

 

One has to wonder why.  They've already reached their verdict.  Time to let the people know what they've decided.  After all, it would be really unfair on Poo to have to wait a further month not knowing that she's been found not guilty (or otherwise).  It must be really stressful for her.

[Dave67]

1 minute ago, NanLaew said:

There's a secret tunnel disguised as a wardrobe in the Pattaya tunnel. That's what took the extra 5 months before they could open the tunnel (at 3.30 PM this afternoon). She's off to Narnia already.

That's obviously why it's taking so much time to finish it

[DLang]

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

Good for her. Probably got wind of the verdict.

 

Wouldn't call it the verdict.

 

 

I would call it the decision. 

 

 

Good on her. You just can't trust these military Juntas that remove legit, democratically elected governments and set up showtrials. 

 

 

[hathairat2711]

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[Reigntax]

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

Good for her. Probably got wind of the verdict.

 

The verdict was decided by heir general prior to the trial commencing and more likely the trial was just to legitimise the juntas decided outcome.

[DLang]

31 minutes ago, Jip99 said:

The act of someone who is as guilty as sin........ 

 

Or the act of someone who knows just how corrupt and illegal acting the junta judges are.

[LatPhrao]

Pray that it's true and god's speed to Yingluck and away from her uber-corrupt persecutors who are the ones belonging in prison.  Taking her now off the daily crucifixion cross and to freedom.  The way to win is not to play. To quote the Monty Python character "I fart in your general direction!".                         Congratulations to the junta and it's supporters for making her a martyr and the Shinawatra's heroic to many, many people and undoubtedly the people's choice, if they had one.  

[Dave67]

There's alway the possibility she's been people smuggled