BANGKOK: Fugitive former premier Yingluck Shinawatra discarded her mobile phones and stopped traveling in her usual vehicles in the days before last week’s dramatic escape, Thailand’s army chief said Tuesday.

Yingluck, whose government was toppled by the military in 2014, staged a disappearing act before a scheduled court judgment last Friday in a criminal negligence trial.

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