Yes, it’s her: Thai foreign minister says fugitive former PM Yingluck is in London

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled the country to avoid being sentenced to jail over a rice subsidy scheme that lost billions of dollars, is in Britain, Thailand’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.

His comments come after two photographs purporting to be of Yingluck were widely shared on social media.

One shows Yingluck wearing a long white coat and blue scarf as she poses with a woman in a red coat. The photo was apparently taken outside London’s Harrods department store. The other allegedly shows Yingluck at London’s Westfield shopping centre.

Thai police said they have verified the photograph of Yingluck outside Harrods and have confirmed Yingluck’s identity. They have yet to confirm the identity of the woman in the photograph allegedly taken at Westfield.

Reuters has not independently verified either photo.