介绍:
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been impeached for corruption.
Thailand's military-backed government has found her guilty of illegally funneling cash to her rural power base through a failed rice subsidy scheme that paid farmers well above market rates for their rice.
Thai authorities estimate the failed program cost the taxpayers around 15-billion US dollars.
She has been banned from Thai politics for 5-years.
Yingluck's supporters contend the charges have been manufactured to keep both her and her brother, ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, out of power.
Thai prosecutors have also announced Yingluck is going to face criminal charges connected to the subsidy scheme.
Surasak Threerattrakul is the Director General of Thailand's Attorney General's office.
"The Attorney General has examined the witnesses and evidence forwarded by the working groups, as well as the evidence in the National Anti-Corruption Commission's case documents, and found that the case was complete enough to prosecute the accused at the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for the Holders of Political Positions. Therefore, (he) has ordered to indict and prosecute Yingluck Shinawatra on the charges she was accused of."
She could face up to 10-years in prison if convicted.
A Constitutional Court in Thailand forced her to step down in May after finding her guilty of abusing her power.
Days later, Thai military took control of the government in a coup.
For more on this CRI's Poornima Weerasekara spoke to Prof. Gong Haochun, who is currently in Thailand. She is an Assosiate Professor of Anthropology at the Minzu university in Beijing.
Professor Gong Haochun, Assosiate Professor of Anthropology at Beijing-based Minzu university talking to Poornima Weerasekara.
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