Man arrested for alleged farm project scam

By The Nation

 

 

Police have arrested an alleged fraudster who claimed that his company was contracted by the United Nations to provide Bt1 million financial support to Thai farmers.

 

Phitchaphipha Sritrakulrak, 56, chairman of Panpee Group (Thai, Laos, Cambodia), was arrested for the crimes that allegedly caused about Bt30 million in damages.

 

Deputy commander of the Tourist police bureau Pol Maj General Surachet Hakparn said the arrest was conducted following a series of complaints from farmers who became suspicious of the suspect’s firm.

 

The firm claimed that it had been allocated a budget from the UN to loan farmers Bt1 million each at a low interest rate, and it would buy their crops at a guaranteed price.

 

Before they could get the money, however, the farmers had to pay a membership fee of between Bt2,000 and Bt5,000 to the company. They also had to pay Bt2,500 to attend seminars organised by the company. Surachet said that these conditions were fraudulent.

 

The suspect earlier claimed he conducted the business as contract farming.

 

In response to the Thai Agriculture Ministry’s inquiry, Deirdre Boyd, UN coordinator, said that the project being implemented by the company did not belong to the UN System Agencies, Funds and Programmes, nor is there any affiliation of the project with the UN System in Thailand.

 

The warrant for Phitchaphipha’s arrest was issued by Surin Court after a complaint by Nachon Trongjai, chairperson of Shiny Intercorperation company. He said the suspect attempted to gather unmilled rice from farmers to export to foreign countries.

 

However, when Nachon got the rice from 325 farmers, the suspect failed to pay as promised.

 

Surachet said the suspect is facing three other fraud charges.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30353441

 

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This poncy glamour boy is back with us again. With his heavy duty non-recyclable background banner which boasts of his wonderful doings plus full frame photo just typifies what these phonies are all about.

His trip to Koh Tao island exposed him as a glory seeker and a cover-up agent for the local mafia, plus being a toady to his toad boss Prawit. 

The fact he is now working for Prawit "Watches" Wongsuwan means he comes with a crooked reputation like the rest of the junta. Ignore this ego driven idiot.

The term "Big Joke" is an understatement. 

Posts apparently made on the wrong topic and a reply to them have been removed.

As the swift cracking of the rape case looks swept under the carpet solved he's back busting scammers easy as ?