Ms. Yingluck appeared in court this morning on corruption charges.

On the morning of May 19, former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrived at the Supreme Court to attend her trial on charges of corruption in rice subsidies.

If convicted, Yingluck faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of more than $6,000.

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck appeared at the Supreme Court on the morning of May 19 (photo: Post Today)

Thailand’s first female prime minister was forced to resign in May 2014 and banned from politics for five years after being convicted of corruption, although she has denied the charges and said they were politically motivated. Yingluck has said she will defend herself in court.

According to The Nation, present at the Supreme Court on the morning of May 19, Ms. Yingluck told the press that she would prove her innocence.

On March 19, the Supreme Court of Thailand decided to accept the case against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The decision of the Supreme Court of Thailand was based on the prosecution of the Attorney General, requesting that Ms. Yingluck be tried for misconduct while performing her duties as a senior state official in the rice purchase and subsidy program for farmers, causing a loss of nearly 20 billion USD.

Ms Yingluck said she was not directly involved in the day-to-day running of the programme and that it was a move to support poor rural areas.

Her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was ousted in a coup in 2006. Mr. Thaksin was also sentenced to two years in prison, but he now lives in exile abroad.

If Ms. Yingluck is sentenced to prison, history seems to repeat itself with the Shinawatra family, meaning that both Ms. Yingluck and her brother rose to high positions and ended their political careers with court rulings./.

According to VOV