Rice scheme was populist plunder, but was it illegal? 

This man doesn’t know when to leave well-enough alone. Yingluck is finished as a political leader but the cretins advising Prayut seem to want to turn her into a martyr and are doing a pretty good job of doing so. The ham-fisted buffoonery gets worse by the day and it’s not lost on those who have supported (and will continue to support) the various iterations of Thaksin-led parties. 
Prbkk
Isn’t confiscating her assets before the verdict a good barometer of the outcome? 
inThailand
So many facts conveniently ignored by many, such as documented rice-scheme collusion, connected cronies, fraud and the inter-connected massive damage of flooding exacerbated by Yingluck’s government ordering dams kept shut to get rice crops in (to kick their rice scheme off at any cost). But the saddest ignored fact in all this is that the poorest farmers were not even part of the scheme. Instead it mostly enriched connected cronies, middlemen, pu yai’s and already wealthy rice millers, large farmers and landowners – basically the mob who controlled influence and “got out the vote” for Thaksin and in return got a chanote or nor sam gor upgrade authorisation, or new roads, water supplies, power, etc in Northeast villages. 
Not many will go against the local headman, millers and other people of influence in Isaan villages, all of whom work hand in hand with the Shinawatra political machine. Meanwhile, many here shamelessly cry about the “poor persecuted Shinawatra family”.
sujoop
Are policy decisions illegal now? Much of the benefit from the scheme did not reach the poor farmers, but that was because the objective was to subsidise production. Is that illegal? Yingluck (though I’m not sure the decision process was that simple) chose one objective over another by keeping dams shut. Is that illegal?
candide
ThaiVisa