Chitchat Judgement Day in BKK, standby Riots as Yingluck joins Park Geunhye behind bars

[taksinloong]

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Yingluck's Judgement Day (Live updates)

politics August 25, 2017 06:20

By The Nation

Please stay tuned for our live update throughout the day.


8:40am: Key figures from the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship arrive at the Supreme Court. One of keymen Weng Tojirakarn say that he believes Yingluck will receive justice.

8.30am: Thirty minutes remain before the court’s schedule to deliver the verdicts, so far, no defendants in the two cases ask for postponement. Yingluck and Boonsong’s lawyers are at the court but there is still no sign of Yingluck as she has not seen leaving her home yet. Her supporters are waiting anxiously at the Supreme Court.

8:23am: Even Yingluck’s team of staff and former Pheu Thai MPs may have no idea whereabouts of Yingluck. Reporters at the court talk to them and they say they are just waiting at the court.

8:15am: Yingluck's former deputies Pongthep Thepkanjana and Chaturon Chaisang are seen observing Yingluck's supporter crowd in front of the Government Complex.

8:15am: Yingluck is still not seen as leaving home, leading to speculation that she may stay overnight somewhere lese, not at home.

8:10am: Court officials inform reporters and attendants of the court room that cell phones are entirely banned from the courtroom.

8:10am: Nattawut Saikua, a key red-shirt leader, arrives in front of the Govetnment Compkex near the Supreme Court to the immense cheers from Yingluck's supporters.

8:05am: "please give a round of applause for our famous metropolitan chief!" says a police officer, introducing Metropolitan Police Bureau cheif Pol Lt Gen Sanit Mahathavorn, who enjoys taking selfies and getting roses from Yingluck's supporter.

Sanit says he has deployed around 4000 police officers to oversee traffic management around the Supreme Court's compound and it went well so far.

8:00am: Authorities open the entrance of the court allowing people who have signed up in advance including the media to go inside. G-to-G defendants and Pheu Thai's people also line up to get inside.

7:57am: Boonsong, along with some Pheu Thai's people, go inside the court.

7:56am: One hour before the court schedule to read the verdicts, it is still quiet in front of Yingluck’s home. Nation TV reporter peeks inside the house and ses a white van parked inside.

7:35am: Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, a main defendant to the G-to-G deal on the rice-pledging scheme, arrives at the Supreme Court. Boonsong, while not anticipating the ruling, says he may ask for bail before proceeding to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Boonsong apparently remains in good spirits, greeting and chatting with people close to Pheu Thai Party including Monthathip while waiting for the court to open as he arrives one hour earlier.

Boonsong says that among 28 defendants, he only consulted with his ex-deputy Poom Sarapol, who also came to hear the ruling today. Asked if the court would read the ruling if not all defendants showed up at the court, he says that it would be due to the court's considetation.

7:35am: So far, key defendants in G-to-G fake deal Boonsong and Poom arrive at the court.

7:30am: Monthathip Kowitcharoenhul, sister of ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra, arrives at the Supreme Court to provide moral support to her sister. Monthathip, positioning herself out of politics, remains non-committal on the Shinawatras' future political career path, only saying "As a sister,I want to see whatever making Yingluck happy,"

Monthathip also refuses speculation that she will be the next leader of Pheu Thai Party, saying that she should let more capable people to do so.

7:30am: Former finance minister Kittirat Na Ranong is here but refused to give any interview.

7:30am: Just a reminder. The court will read the two verdicts at 9am onwards. As the case on the G-to-G fake deal involving 28 defendants, including Boonsong and Poom, it was not sure if all defendants would attend the hearing or whether they would arrive on time. Usually, the court will wait until all defendants arrive in the court room before delivering the verdict.

7:15am: A grey van is seen entering Yingluck’s home. It was reported earlier that she would leave her home to hear the court verdict at 7am.

7:05 am: Yingluck's supporters share a bottle of water to a police officer and give flower to the speaking officer.

7:00am: Former deputy commerce minister Poom Sarapol, one of the defendants in the fake Government-to-Government rice deal involving in the rice-pledging scheme, arrives at the Supreme Court. He was seen having breakfast at food court centre

7:00 am: Two panels of judges in two separate cases arrive at the Supreme Court.The two cases, which are related to Yingluck government’s rice-pledging scheme, are the negligence case against Yingluck and the malfeasance case against her commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and 27 others.

7:00 am: Police officers take turn speaking via a sound truck talking to the cro

 

[taksinloong]

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Supreme Court issues arrest for Yingluck after no-show

Breaking News August 25, 2017 10:47

By Kasamakon Chanwanpen
The Nation

A Supreme Court on Friday issues an arrest warrant against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra after she missed a verdict in a negligence trial involving her rice-pledging scheme.


The Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions postponed reading the verdict to September 27 and ordered the seizure of the bail guarantee of Bt30 million.

She is scheduled to arrive at the Court on Changwattana Road at 9am but she was no show, prompting the court to issue the arrest warrant. If Yingluck still fails to show up on September 27, the Court is allowed by law to read the verdict in her absentia.

Lead judge Cheep Chulamon told the Court that Yingluck’s lawyer said she is sick from Meniere's disease and asked to delay the ruling without presenting medical certification of her sickness.

He said the defendant's lawyers had requested for a deferment of the verdict delivery, reasoning that Yingluck was suffering from symptoms of Meniere's Disease.

The prosecutor, Cheep said, objected and did not believe that because the defendant had not submitted a medical certificate.

The court considered the request and decided not to believe the claim that she was so unwell that she could not attend the hearing, Cheep said.

The court was convinced Yingluck had absconded and so ordered to issue an arrest warrant and seize the Bt30 million bail, he said.

The verdict is rescheduled to September 27 at 9 am.

The reading of the statement took less than one minute and the ruling panel left the courtroom immediately after it was finished.

Outside the Court room, Yingluck's lawyer; Norawich Larlang he was informed by a source at 8 am this morning that Yingluck is not unwell. Norawich said he did not know Yingluck's whereabouts or whether or not she is still in the Kingdom or not.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan confirms that he has been informed about Yingluck’s no-show in the court on a claim of sickness.

Noppadol Pattama, former foreign minister under Yingluck’s government claimed he has no knowledge on Yingluck's delayed arrival.

 

[Bonut]

Typical Thai style. When the shit hits the fan, siamz!

 

[taksinloong]

Typical Thai style. When the shit hits the fan, siamz!

Red Shirt Army can not beat Junta Army. Used to be able to occupy PMO, streets, and ministries. Spilled blood all over home of PM Abhisit

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com...l-own-blood-at-pms-house-2010mar17-story.html

 

[johnny333]

Was thinking of going to LOS but will wait until things cool down.

Read that the funeral of the old king is going to be held in December. So that is also not a good time to visit

 

[rambo22]

you all dun have to worry about Ying Luck

her bf, Sugar Lee will protect her one

 

[Victory2016]

Are you sure?

Even his own family member described Sugar as "dishonourable". Will he really protect her?

 

[taksinloong]

Yellow Shirt demand arresting any one who helped her fled Thailand:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1313383/pad-who-helped-yingluck-flee-


PAD: Who helped Yingluck flee?

26 Aug 2017 at 15:36 21,197 viewed44 comments
WRITER: ONLINE REPORTERS

People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) members on Saturday issue a statement demanding an investigation into former premier Yingluck Shinawatra's escape. They also renewed their call for the anti-graft agency to appeal the acquittal of four members of another Shinawatra-linked government on charges related to a deadly crackdown on yellow-shirt PAD protesters in 2008. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha)

The People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is demanding that the government investigate the escape of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and severely punish any state officials who helped her flee the country.

Ms Yingluck is now reported to be in Dubai where her exiled brother Thaksin lives, having fled the country before she was due to appear at the Supreme Court in Bangkok on Friday for the ruling in her negligence case. She is believed to have travelled overland to Cambodia and then flown to the United Arab Emirates via Singapore.

High-level sources told the Bangkok Post on Friday that senior officials were complicit in the escape. They feared that a guilty ruling and jail term would lead to unrest among Ms Yingluck's many supporters, 3,000 of whom waited in vain to see her at the Supreme Court.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Prawit Wongsuwon conceded on Friday that it was likely Ms Yingluck had fled the country.

The PAD said Ms Yingluck’s escape reflected a failure on the part of security authorities, leading to speculation that the failure was allowed to happen.

They pointed out that Ms Yingluck for months had been closely shadowed by soldiers, to the point where she complained on social media about privacy violations. They noted that Gen Prawit on Feb 29 last year had said soldiers were needed to provide protection for Ms Yingluck and to help maintain peace and order in a politically tense time.

As Ms Yingluck had fled the country, the government and the NCPO must be held responsible, said the PAD, the official name for the yellow-shirt movement that began life a decade ago to protest against the goverment of Thaksin Shinawatra and its later incarnations.

In their statement on Saturday PAD leaders also renewed their call for the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to appeal against the acquittal of four officials in connection with the deadly crackdown on yellow-shirt protesters in 2008.

The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions ruled on Aug 2 that the four defendants could not be held directly responsible for the violence that ensued after PAD members attempted to blockade Parliament.

The four defendants are former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat (Thaksin's brother-in-law), former deputy prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former police chief Patcharawat Wongsuwon and former metropolitan police chief Suchart Muankaew.

The crackdown on Oct 7, 2008 resuled in two deaths and 471 injuries.

The NACC has 30 days to file an appeal but has taken no action so far, said the PAD. Veera Somkwamkid, a PAD leader, has been assigned to send a petition to the NACC on Monday to ask it to take action.