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Friday, May 8, 2015
Thailand: 2 ex-ministers impeached over rice scheme
Workers unload rice from a truck in northeastern Thailand. Pic: AP.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s military-appointed legislature has voted to
impeach the former commerce minister and his deputy for alleged
corruption in a rice deal the nation’s graft watchdog said was bogus.
Members of the National Legislative Assembly voted overwhelmingly on
Friday to impeach former Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and
deputy Commerce Minister Poom Sarapol.
The country’s anti-graft commission suggested that a
government-to-government rice deal that the pair and other government
officials oversaw was nonexistent.
The men will face a ban from politics for five years.
The NLA members were chosen by the military junta after it ousted a civilian government in a coup last May.
The legislature also impeached former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
in January for overseeing a government rice subsidy program that lost
billions of dollars.
