Court upholds B14.5bn rice scheme redress
Petition to quash state order fails
Former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and four other officials have been ordered to pay hefty compensation stemming from the Yingluck Shinawatra administration’s rice-pledging scheme.
The Central Administrative Court on Monday threw out the five defendants’ petition for it to nullify a state order for them to pay for the damages caused by the bogus rice sales.
The petitioners were Mr Boonsong; Manas Soiploy, the former director-general of the Foreign Trade…
