BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Supreme Court cleared self-exiled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of negligence on Monday in a case dating back to her time in office in 2013, local media reported.
Yingluck, a prominent member of the influential Shinawatra family, has been living overseas for the past six years to avoid jail in a previous conviction for negligence following her government’s ousting in a 2014 military coup.
The court had yet to issue a statement on the ruling, which Reuters could not immediately verify.
(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um and Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by Martin Petty)
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