Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra
has called again
for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to file a civil lawsuit,
instead of an administrative order, to seek compensation for
losses incurred by her administration's rice-pledging
programme.
In an
open letter to Gen Prayut published Wednesday on her
Facebook page, Ms Yingluck
said a trial in court would give
her a fair opportunity to defend herself against
the state's
attempt to seize her assets as compensation, as opposed to
the
administrative process which she says bypasses the courts.
"I insist that I am innocent and am
ready to prove it,"
MsYingluck said in the letter. "Rushing the legal
process
limits my chance to defend my position to the best of my
abilities,
which goes against basic human rights."
Opponents,
however, insisted that evenin the administrative
process, the case would end up
in court.
They said Ms Yingluck also has the option to petition the
Administrative Court to revoke the order, a right which experts
say she is
certain to exercise.
Ms Yingluck is accused by her critics of
trying to distort facts
by claiming the administrative process does not involve
the court.
When the administrative order was first
proposed last month,
Ms Yingluck asked Gen Prayut in an open letter to halt the
seizure of her assets and let the court process take its course.
The government claims the action is to
prevent the
administrative order's statuteof limitations in the case from
expiring next February. Ms Yingluck argued in her letter
that the prime
minister might have been misinformed about
the various statutes of limitations,
leading him to believe
the government's only course of action was to issue the
administrative order as per the 1996 Act on Liability for
Wrongful Acts of
Officials.
Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said
the law
clearly stated the statute of limitations related to
the
administrative court order lasted two years.
But now that the government has issued a new administrative
order seeking damages from Ms Yingluck, the statute of
limitations is not an issue, he added.
Mr Wissanu said the government's legal team determined the
administrative order was issued in the best interests of
taxpayers whose money was spent on the scheme.
Under the act, Ms Yingluck could be prosecuted for negligence
of duty as a state official during her time as prime minister,
providing legal grounds for the government to seek compensation
from her for the rice scheme, the deputy premier said.
He said in February the Commerce Ministry would release
its estimate of how much compensation Ms Yingluck must pay.
News,Politics,Bangkok Post,12 November 2015.
In my viewpoint,the Prayut government can use
either civil lawsuit or admintrative order with this rice
scheme corruption case.
The aim is who corrupt from the country and Thai people
must pay back in the amount in the that reasonable as
it should be.
Sincerely Yours.
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