Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin Shinawatra, both fugitives forced to live overseas, left for Hong Kong on Tuesday and stayed in Japan since Saturday, sources close to them said. Yingluck was last year sentenced in absentia by Thailand’s Supreme Court to five years in prison for negligence in handling a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of dollars. Yingluck had been exceptionally granted permission for entry by the Japanese government, the sources said. She has sought asylum in Britain, as reported by CNN on September, 2017.