Couple charged with illegal money-lending, rape and detention

[webfact]

Couple charged with illegal money-lending, rape and detention

By The Nation

 

 

A couple has been arrested on suspicion of operating a loan-shark operation in Chon Buri after allegedly detaining, assaulting and raping a female customer in a bid to collect a debt, police announced on Tuesday.
 

Watcharee Sawaengpol, 32, and her husband Manu Phew-on, 44, face charges of illegal money lending, robbery, assault, illegal detention, and rape. They have denied the charges.

 

The arrest stemmed from a May 9 complaint by a 26-year-old woman who had borrowed Bt100,000 from the couple. 

 

The victim, whose name was withheld, accused the couple of forcing her into their pick-up truck in front of a company in Sri Racha district and driving her to a rented house where she was detained.

 

 

She claimed that Watcharee assaulted and injured her while Manu raped her while his wife wasn’t around, before the couple later released her. 

 

The couple reportedly fled to Prachuap Khiri Khan where they laid low for two weeks until police finally caught up with them. 

 

A police probe found that the couple had lent cash to low-income people in Sri Racha at a daily interest rate of 20 per cent. They had allegedly resorted to threats and even destroyed property of creditors who failed to repay debts or keep up with instalments. As of press time, several more people have stepped forward to file complaints against them.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30346014

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-23

[poanoi]

daily interest rate of 20 per cent.

 

not bad, my account give 0% per year as comparison

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the couple had lent cash to low-income people in Sri Racha at a daily interest rate of 20 per cent.

clearly the borrowers do not understand what that means; the farcical first photo prototypes what we must sadly endure associated with the thai police

[Thaiwrath]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the couple had lent cash to low-income people in Sri Racha at a daily interest rate of 20 per cent.

A very common occurrence here, usually orchestrated by people with 'connections' high up the 'authority' chain.

[ronaldo0]

Did they bring their own helmets to the photo op ?? ?

[petermik]

7 hours ago, ronaldo0 said:

Did they bring their own helmets to the photo op ?? ?

You gotta laugh at the pic...all except the accused stood to attention and these two making them look foolish

[nickcar]

6 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

A very common occurrence here, usually orchestrated by people with 'connections' high up the 'authority' chain.

Not very common. Going rate is 10% to 20% per month. 

[Rimmer]

2 hours ago, ronaldo0 said:

Did they bring their own helmets to the photo op ?? ?

I preferred the old fashioned 'pointing pics' ?

[transam]

Was that a helmet advert.....?

[dunroaming]

8 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

A very common occurrence here, usually orchestrated by people with 'connections' high up the 'authority' chain.

Yes very common and always with extortionate lending rates.  Not common to abduct and rape borrowers though, as far as I know.  Usually threats of violence or violence itself for those who cannot pay but then let them go to try to raise the payments.  Sounds more like the man was being guided by his d*ck rather than his brain.

[SCOTT FITZGERSLD]

On 5/23/2018 at 1:53 AM, nickcar said:

Not very common. Going rate is 10% to 20% per month. 

that's not funny. feel sorry for so many thai who live at hard poverty and still have to suffer the brutal treatment of such monsters, with "connections" indeed...