In the long and painful history of corruption in Thailand, only one minister has actually served an imprisonment term for accepting a bribe, while others had somehow managed to stay out of jail. In the Klong-Dan scandal, for example, two former ministers were indicted, but while one passed away before the court’s decision, the other was able to flee the country a few months before being convicted in 2008 and has been living abroad since. Looking at the amount of loss in the rice-pledging policy, one can’t help but wonder why only former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is being charged for negligence.