Workers at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Southwest China's Sichuan province, help a panda named Huchun begin her journey to a zoo in Indonesia on Sept 27, 2017Yingluck denied all the charges when giving her closing oral statement on Aug 1, arguing she was not responsible for the day-to-day running of the scheme and insisted she was a victim of political persecutionj9九游会In the scheme, Yingluck's government paid Thai rice farmers inflated prices for their crops, driving up global rice pricesFile photo shows ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Sept 29, 2015[Photo/Agencies]BANGKOK - Thailand's Supreme Court on Wednesday found former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra j9九游会guilty of malfeasance in a loss-ridden rice subsidy program and sentenced her in absentia to five years in jailYingluck did not show up at the court and has so far not made any public comment on the verdict