Rice scheme civil claim 'still an option'
The Commerce Ministry has rejected widespread criticism on social media that it was too slow to act in demanding financial compensation from suspects in the multi-billion-baht rice-pledging scandal.
A new wave of negative comments from concerned netizens was prompted by worries that the statute of limitations in the case was due to expire on Sept 7.
But Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn discounted the date as pure speculation. She said Sept 7 was simply the deadline for two panels to rule on whether former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and 21 other people implicated by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) are, in fact, financially liable.