Twelve of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the Department of Legal Execution in the first civil liability action against the ex-premier whose rice-pledging scheme has been alleged to have caused huge financial damages to Thailand.

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is pleaded not guilty in a brief hearing at the start of her trial on charges of negligence.

Thailand's Supreme Court orders the former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra to stand trial for negligence over a controversial rice subsidy scheme