Parents plead innocence over daughter’s alleged multiple dowry fraud

By Kampanart La-ong 
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The parents of fraud suspect Jariyaporn Buayai - accused of duping 13 men into marrying her and then fleeing with their dowries and wedding gifts - told Crime Suppression Bureau investigators in Bangkok on Tuesday that they had nothing to do with the alleged crimes.

 

Boonliang Buayai, 72, and his wife, Samrong, 69, told deputy CSB commander Pol Colonel Suwat Saengnum that their 32-year-old daughter did not give them dowry money.

 

Police will check the couple’s bank accounts. 

 

The couple said they attended four weddings with their daughter as the bride and she paid for their travel expenses.

They said that before each wedding they met the grooms at their house in Loei's Wang Saphung district. 

 

Boonliang said they didn't intervene with their children's love lives because their children were adults.

 

He said he asked Jariyaporn why she had so many marriages and she replied that she was always single before starting a new relationship, so he did not probe any further because it was a personal matter.

 

He said he didn't request a dowry for any of the weddings and had assumed the newlyweds used the money.

 

He said he and his wife never brought relatives with them to attend her weddings because of a limited budget.

 

“I live far [from Jariyaporn] so I just came to attend the wedding without being involved in any preparation,” he said. 

“When the news broke [about her alleged crimes], I’ve been scolded for nothing. My whole family is condemned for cheating. This is ugly. 

 

“So we came to meet police to express our sincerity that we have nothing to do with the dowry money.”

 

He said he and his wife met with police before they were required to under the summonses issued against them. They came voluntarily to plead their innocence.

 

Suwat said the couple's testimony will be forwarded to investigators.

 

Last Tuesday complaints were filed with the CSB by 13 men who claimed to be have been defrauded by Jariyaporn of between Bt100,000 to Bt500,000 each. 

 

They said Jariyaporn claimed to be a wealthy fruit seller called Soipjetch Paleewan and they met her via Facebook.

Each man said he spent about two months in a relationship with her before the subject of a wedding and a dowry came up. 

 

Jariyaporn was arrested last Thursday night in Samut Sakhon province, where she was living with her husband Kittisak Tantiwatkul, 33.

 

She denied the allegations and said she had married only seven men.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30326478

 

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22 minutes ago, webfact said:

The couple said they attended four weddings with their daughter as the bride

Only the funeral to go ! 

Please! Check the financials and they'll probably find some unknown deposits after each 'wedding' they  attended.

Why is it a police matter? She hasn't actually committed any crime.

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9 minutes ago, alleykat said:

Why is it a police matter? She hasn't actually committed any crime.

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Don't worry one will be found... so much media attention she has to of committed a crime.

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1 hour ago, alleykat said:

Why is it a police matter? She hasn't actually committed any crime.

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"She hasn't actually committed any crime." If the 13 men were farang, you would be right, but the men were Thai, so you're wrong.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

She denied the allegations and said she had married only seven men.

Only seven? in that case I can't see what all the fuss is about.

I wonder if she told any of them she was slightly pregnant 

''she had married only seven men''

 

there you go. innocent.

poor girl.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He said he didn't request a dowry for any of the weddings and had assumed the newlyweds used the money.

dowrys are requested by parents, not the bethrothed

Isn't being married to multiply men at same time a crime in Thailand?  Bigamy I believe it is called in North America. 

Obviously parents knew what was going on.

Throw them in jail for 10 years as accomplice in fraud along with their greedy daughter.

These farangs and her are all willing parties.

Isn't being married to multiply men at same time a crime in Thailand?  Bigamy I believe it is called in North America. 

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Only seven? in that case I can't see what all the fuss is about.
I wonder if she told any of them she was slightly pregnant 

Different situation here, my guess they were unregistered marriages.

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We've gone through the sin sot discussion before.

 

This is just another reason the archaic dowry system--in all forms and all countries East and West--is simply out of touch with reality. In today's divorce-laden societies, marriage is little more than a license to temporarily live together. Even in those societies where divorce is illegal or frowned upon; marriages, in their most sincere form, still end and subsequent relationships begin. 

 

If two people love each other, do they really need a government and/or a religion to sanctify their relationship? Only their own faith may see it's need. The trouble, of course, is that marriage is so ingrained in our laws and our cultures that it is often easier to accommodate legalities and social expectations by being married.

 

 

13 minutes ago, mdmayes said:

Isn't being married to multiply men at same time a crime in Thailand?  Bigamy I believe it is called in North America. 

They probably had a religious ceremony, a marriage has to be registered at the Amphur's office before it's legal

Many Thai guys do not register the marriage as its a way to leave quickly when they find  a younger one with money so all she has done is a roll reversal sad way to live but hey where are we?

 

1 hour ago, koolkarl said:

Obviously parents knew what was going on.

Throw them in jail for 10 years as accomplice in fraud along with their greedy daughter.

I why would that be? You seem to know more than everyone else. Please tell us.

I like the fruit and flowers in the interrogation room? No one is pointing? Dam good PR picture.

1 hour ago, Get Real said:

I why would that be? You seem to know more than everyone else. Please tell us.

Not speaking for CoolKarl, but in the interview, they claim they knew nothing yet attended four wedding with their daughter with no family. Who the hell does that? I've been to two Thai wedding and the guy or family had to pay for everything if they wanted the daughter hand. I guess these Thai parents are the exception or just not Thai?  I would be embarrassed even in Thailand to use such a excuse. 

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Different situation here, my guess they were unregistered marriages.

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Exactly the case. No signatures. Married in front of god only. 

7 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Only the funeral to go ! 

Yes, and if you take a closer look at her parents - it doesn't look like a poor old couple (72/69yo) who have worked really hard all life....

 

And if you look at the ring finger to their daughter - it looks like she also is married, maybe just before joining this celebration - for a celebration it looks like with fruit, coffee, cookies, water and toothpicks on the table - only the brown envelope  is missing or just out of sight....;)

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Not clear what the crime is. Bigamy I suppose, but beyond that?

4 hours ago, YetAnother said:

dowrys are requested by parents, not the bethrothed

Not necessilarily in Thailand.......... you see she did it 7 or more times with Thai's...........

I'm happy for her...... Now she will have a better way of life and in this rare case..... No farangs will cry...............

6 hours ago, wvavin said:

These farangs and her are all willing parties.

farangs are foreigners, the men she married were all Thai, as far as i am aware

10 hours ago, alleykat said:

Why is it a police matter? She hasn't actually committed any crime.

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Outright fraud is a crime, even in Thailand, isn't it?   Unless the parents were co-conspirators with their daughter in committing these frauds, which they don't appear to be, they're not legally guilty of anything I don't think, but any money their daughter gave them resulting from the frauds could probably be clawed back.

 

And so it's a police matter.

 

 

4 hours ago, thailand49 said:

Not speaking for CoolKarl, but in the interview, they claim they knew nothing yet attended four wedding with their daughter with no family. Who the hell does that? I've been to two Thai wedding and the guy or family had to pay for everything if they wanted the daughter hand. I guess these Thai parents are the exception or just not Thai?  I would be embarrassed even in Thailand to use such a excuse. 

You clearly have a point, but there is not a rule or a need for that. I have also been to marriages. In many of thoose cases the girls familiy paid for the wedding party, out of the dowry. So, Iguess that if the parents let the girl have the dowry, she might be the one paying. On the other hand it´s 4 like you say, and not many parents look away from the money. Most likely they have knowledge about what happened, but they might not have too. Their bankaccounts will probably show that.

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Boonliang Buayai, 72, and his wife, Samrong, 69

 

Damn.   No one mentioned how good both parents look for being 72 and 69!! 

10 hours ago, koolkarl said:

Obviously parents knew what was going on.

Throw them in jail for 10 years as accomplice in fraud along with their greedy daughter.

Don`t know why but I believe the parents version of events.

 

Just elderly simple country folk and probably dragged in by their daughter not really knowing the full extent of what they were being involved with.

 

We will see what transpires.