BANGKOK, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Sunday dismissed allegations that a hush-hush deal had been reached with former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra so that she could eventually evade final judgment in court and leave the country.
NCPO spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree dismissed as groundless the allegations that the NCPO had secretly agreed with Yingluck to the extent that she be given the exit out of the country, just before she was scheduled last Friday to appear before the Supreme Court to be delivered a verdict on a lawsuit filed against her.
Yingluck, for whom an arrest warrant was issued following her failure to appear in court, was said to have departed Thailand for the United Arab Emirates.
"The NCPO and government run the country in open, straightforward fashion and never evaded the judicial process," the spokesman said.
