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Attorney General delays move to prosecute ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra in rice-pledging case

BANGKOK, Sept 4 – The Office of the Attorney General has not yet acted to prosecute former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra but will form a joint committee with the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to further investigation into the rice-pledging case against her.

Wanchai Rujanawong, spokesman of the Office of the Attorney General, said that the office through a working group had not moved to prosecute Ms Yingluck in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders for dereliction of duty as the NACC proposed because it needed more information in three areas.

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