Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has asked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to treat her as fairly as he does with his younger brother and permanent secretary for defence Preecha Chan-o-cha.
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra writes on her Facebook account on Sunday urging for fairly treatment from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. (Photo from @Y.Shinawatra Facebook account)
Ms Yingluck conveyed her message to Gen Prayut on her Facebook account on Sunday after hearing the prime minister say on his return home from the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier on Sunday that the government, in ordering her to pay for damages incurred in her government's rice-pledging scheme, was not persecuting her but adhering to the law.
Gen Prayut said Ms Yingluck was liable by law to pay for the damages.
She wrote: "Since the prime minister has given a confirmation from his own mouth that the legal actions against me are based on the law and are not persecution, I would like him to apply the same logic and justice to me as he does to ensure justice and protection for his brother and other people who are regarded to be on his side. All laws should be applied to everyone, not discriminately against my side."
Ms Yingluck's comment was a reference to insinuations made against Gen Prayut's brother Pol Gen Preecha. A company, of which Gen Preecha's son was a shareholder, is suspected of having been awarded seven projects from the 3rd Army Region between December 2014 and April this year worth a combined 97 million baht.
