Owner of tyre shop arrested for alleged money laundering

By The Nation

 

Picture: INN

 

The owner of a tyre and auto accessories shop in Samut Sakhon's Krathumban district was arrested Monday morning for allegedly laundering money for a drug gang.
 

Rungroj Jirattikanphan was arrested at his Por Rungroj shop under a warrant for having allegedly laundered money for the so-called Muns Thuk Med (Fun every pill) drug gang.

 

Pol Lt Gen Sommai Kongwisaisuk, commissioner of Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said Rungroj was accused of laundering money for the gang over the past year by using his shop as a front.

 

Sommai said police found that more than Bt100 million had passed through his bank accounts in recent months.

 

He added that said the gang, which was recently busted, had been recruiting drug pushers via Facebook and allegedly had more than 9,000 pushers in 30 provinces.

 

The gang apparently allowed the pushers to buy the drugs on credit and pay after they had sold them.

 

Sommai said the alleged gang leader Panyuwit Prathoom, for whom an arrest warrant is outstanding, has fled to a neighbouring country.

 

The police earlier arrested two other tyre shop owners in Phitsanulok for having allegedly laundered money for the gang.

 

Sommai said they all sold tyres at low prices so that their books would show the income coming from a legitimate business.

 

Rungroj denied the charges and said he would explain the source of the Bt100 million in court.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30353038

 

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Rungroj denied the charges and said he would explain the source of the Bt100 million in court.

 

Got to love his optimism  

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

he would explain the source of the Bt100 million in court.

"It was actually 120 million. The other 20 million is here in a lunch box"

 

 

"Case dismissed."

 

Rungroj says he can explain the 100 million, WOW must be some profit selling tyres.

7 hours ago, canopus1969 said:

Rungroj denied the charges and said he would explain the source of the Bt100 million in court.

 

Got to love his optimism  

A recently deceased friend lent him it.....not guilty 

The wheels have come off of that operation!

42 minutes ago, TConthePC said:

The wheels have come off of that operation!

There was definitely some skidmarks when the coppers rolled in. 

Did not grease all wheels well, some got brown

what about the bank there seems to do little about this money laundering from meny gangsta and from meny other nationalities in Thailand 

but I really wait for his explanation 555