Yingluck Awaits Court Ruling on Rice Pledging Case Reopening

Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is awaiting the Supreme Administrative Court's ruling this afternoon on her request to reopen a case regarding compensation for damages from corruption in the rice-pledging programme, valued at approximately 10 billion baht. On September 22, the Central Administrative Court was scheduled to read the Supreme Administrative Court's order in case PM 3/2569, filed by Yingluck and her husband Anusorn Amornchat requesting the court to reconsider the case. In the original case, Yingluck and her husband sued the Prime Minister and nine others, leading to a court order that Yingluck bear financial liability as former Prime Minister and chair of the National Rice Policy Committee for allowing corruption in the rice-pledging programme and failing to prevent state losses totaling 10,028,861,880.83 baht. The hearing is scheduled for September 23 at 1:30 p.m. in courtroom 4 of the Central Administrative Court building. The Central Administrative Court rejected Yingluck's petition for case reopening on January 13, 2025, finding that the new evidence she cited—a Commerce Ministry memo from August 1, 2024—was merely documentation of discussions Yingluck had with the ministry after the Supreme Court had already issued its judgment, and therefore did not constitute new evidence that could materially alter the factual findings in the original verdict.