After a trial running over two years, the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions began reading the verdict at 11 am local time and continued for nearly four hoursThe subsidy scheme did not work, costing the country 8 billion US dollars and leaving it with vast stockpiles of rice九游网官网官方It was reported that she had fled to Dubai where her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in self-imposed exile avoiding a 2008 sentence for corruptionHer lawyer said she was ill with an ear problem and could not appear in courtThe verdict was supposed九游网官网官方 to be read on Aug 25, but Yingluck, the country's first woman prime minister, failed to show upThe court then issued an arrest warrant on her and postponed the verdict