Government targets Yingluck’s assets over rice scheme

The government plans to issue an administrative order to claim the assets of ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra to compensate the state for losses incurred from her administration’s rice-pledging scheme — a move which will bypass court procedures.

It claims the action is to prevent the case from expiring based on the two-year statute of limitations, which will expire in February 2017.

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