Fugitive former Thai PM Yingluck gets five years' jail in absentia

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison on Wednesday for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars.

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