4,000+ Year Prison Sentence For Japan Scam Mastermind

[webfact]

4,000+ Year Prison Sentence For Japan Scam Mastermind

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

Pasist Arinchayalapis on Wednesday at the Criminal Court in Bangkok.

 

BANGKOK — The mastermind of a tour scam that left thousands of holidaymakers bound for Japan stranded at an airport last year was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday.

 

The Criminal Court sentenced Pasist Arinchayalapis, or Sinsae Shogun, to 4,355 years in prison for 871 counts of indictment carrying a five-year jail term each, after his company scammed thousands of tourists last year.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/09/12/4000-year-prison-sentence-for-japan-scam-mastermind/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-09-12

[Esso49]

Well he was not that much of a mastermind unless he has his own cryogenic chamber to survive in for 4000 years

[tifino]

... either way, he'll be incarcerated until hell freezes over

[Just1Voice]

3 minutes ago, tifino said:

... either way, he'll be incarcerated until hell freezes over

Wrong.

"However, according to the law, Pasist will serve 20 years in prison and pay a 20,000 baht fine"

[LomSak27]

Does this mean they will double the time until they can post bail to 4 months?

 

 

[cyberfarang]

4000 year prison sentence.

 

Not too bed, with good behaviour he`ll only serve half that sentence. 

[darksidedog]

4,355 years? Seriously? While I like to see criminals get their just desserts, such a sentence is just laughable. The court makes a mockery of itself by such insane judgments. A simple life with no parole, would have done the trick. People around the world will be laughing at the idiocy of the judge who dished this one out, who apparently is just a little ignorant of a humans life expectancy.

[PatOngo]

Really? 4,000 years, he'll notice a few changes when he gets out!

[Aachen]

17 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

4,355 years? Seriously? While I like to see criminals get their just desserts, such a sentence is just laughable. The court makes a mockery of itself by such insane judgments. A simple life with no parole, would have done the trick. People around the world will be laughing at the idiocy of the judge who dished this one out, who apparently is just a little ignorant of a humans life expectancy.

I think, they learned this from the US.

[Misterwhisper]

By being  exceedingly greedy he (she?) apparently masterminded his (her?) Bangkwan holiday for the next four millennia. Well done, Dr. Evil would be proud!!! 

[PatOngo]

13 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

By being  exceedingly greedy he (she?) apparently masterminded his (her?) Bangkwan holiday for the next four millennia. Well done, Dr. Evil would be proud!!! 

Bangkwang will likely be underwater in the next 50 years, maybe he will get to spend some time in CM.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, tifino said:

... either way, he'll be incarcerated until hell freezes over

With climate change after 4000 years I reckon he'll be released just after the next ice-age hits so you could be spot on.. ??

[Vacuum]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

holidaymakers bound for Japan stranded at an airport

 How long were they stranded at this airport?

Edited September 12, 2018 by Vacuum

[Esso49]

2 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

 How long where they stranded at this airport?

Look on the bright side,  his fraud may have saved some from going to Koh Tao

[Darcula]

4000 years? I bet he's wishing now he'd raped or murdered someone instead.

[Esso49]

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

4,355 years? Seriously? While I like to see criminals get their just desserts, such a sentence is just laughable. The court makes a mockery of itself by such insane judgments. A simple life with no parole, would have done the trick. People around the world will be laughing at the idiocy of the judge who dished this one out, who apparently is just a little ignorant of a humans life expectancy.

Well when you have Senior Judges (now ex judges) who threaten to expose their own wives naughty bits in the media unless they do as they are told,  what would you expect other than a mockery of judicial process ?

[impulse]

I'm a little curious how the scam went down and whether that was the plan all along, or something happened to the money. 

 

The linked article says that 2 others received the same sentence, and that there's an MLM company involved (and on the hook for 435 million baht in fines).  I can't help but wonder if all 3 of them deserved such a long sentence (even 20 years), or if one or more were just duped into the deal?

 

[sanemax]

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

4,355 years? Seriously? While I like to see criminals get their just desserts, such a sentence is just laughable. The court makes a mockery of itself by such insane judgments. A simple life with no parole, would have done the trick. People around the world will be laughing at the idiocy of the judge who dished this one out, who apparently is just a little ignorant of a humans life expectancy.

He got charged with numerous individual crimes and the Judge gave him a sentence for each crime and added them all up

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Food supplement fraudsters get 4,355-year sentence

By The Nation

 

 

Fraud suspect Pasit “Sinsae Shogun” Ariyalapit was sentenced on Wednesday by the primary court to a total of 4,355 years in prison plus a Bt20,000 fine, although under Thai law she would actually serve only 20 years behind bars as the maximum prison term for the offences.
 

Pasit, 31, was found guilty of 871 counts of violating the 1984 Decree on Obtaining Loans Amounting to Public Cheating and Fraud and of violating the Food Act 1979 through selling food supplement products with faulty labels. 

 

Meanwhile, the food supplement firm WealthEver, the first defendant in the case, was ordered by the court to pay a fine of Bt435.52 million. Pasit was the firm’s founder and chief executive.

 

The wrongdoings by Pasit and her accomplices made news headlines early last year as they were accused of cheating more than 1,000 people who were, from January to April 2017, lured into paying a Bt9,700 per head membership fee to get food supplements and a chance to win a free three-day return trip to Japan.

 

The would-be travellers were left stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport last April, resulting in police investigations and the arrest of Pasit while she was trying to flee the country via Ranong. The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) subsequently issued arrest warrants alleging additional public fraud charges against Pasit’s eight alleged accomplices.

 

Two other defendants in this case – Pasit's close friend and personal secretary Thasdao Samakkasikan, 36, and another woman named Parinthorn Honghiran Dakker, 36 – were also each sentenced to 4,355 years in prison but would also serve only the maximum 20 years. 

 

The court also ordered the company, Pasit, Thasdao and Parinthorn to repay a combined Bt51 million to the 871 damaged persons plus a 7.5 per cent annual interest, starting from July 6, 2017 when the lawsuit was filed until the full payment is made.

 

Another six defendants were acquitted, including Pasit’s mother Monthaya Nirandorn (formerly Chanchai Nakrit), 56, Pasit’s cousin Kongsaran Saengprapa, 23, Pasit's office secretary Parnom Palanuson, 41, Kongsaran's mother Nichamon Saengprapa, 65, Sudarat Aneknuan, 26, and Kowit Chuaysat, 31.

 

When this case caught Thai public attention, the Tourism and Sports Ministry at the time reacted to the widespread fallout of the case by saying it would seek cooperation from Facebook and Line social media platforms to help prevent dishonest businesses from luring customers to join Ponzi and similar schemes.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30354306

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-09-12

[Psimbo]

No mention of 'Boy' yet, even though he has nothing to do with this. Standards chaps, standards! ?

[Esso49]

3 minutes ago, Psimbo said:

No mention of 'Boy' yet, even though he has nothing to do with this. Standards chaps, standards! ?

Strange you should say that because I was only just thinking where has "Big Joke" been these last few days ? Could they all be one of the same using aliases ?

[Misterwhisper]

Next thing that we'll probably hear from him (her?) is that he (she?) has conned more than 800 fellow inmates out of their daily fish head soup rations. 

[Ralf61]

4,355 years in prison plus a Bt20,000

 

I always love that one...

[lamyai3]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The mastermind of a tour scam that left thousands of holidaymakers bound for Japan stranded at an airport last year was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday.

That's ridiculous. Most people don't even live to be 1000. 

[bluesofa]

6 hours ago, darksidedog said:

{snipped} While I like to see criminals get their just desserts, such a sentence is just laughable.

Good job they weren't in the army then. I'm sure it must state in the regulations that one soldier may not help another to dessert - or any other sort of pudding.

 

[BigBadGeordie]

12 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

4,355 years in prison plus a Bt20,000

 

I always love that one...

What a pisser, Bf20,000 fine.

 

Hey, he can do the time, this lifetime,  or whatever, if he makes enough merit he could be home before lunch.

 

But for <deleted> sake Bt20,000 are you joking.

[lamyai3]

5 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

4,355 years in prison plus a Bt20,000

 

I always love that one...

She can pay it off at 5 baht per day until the year 6373, though if they're using the Thai calendar it'll be 6916 before she's paid her debt to society.

 

It hurts when the full force of the law is brought to bear - I'm still paying off a three tical fine for not wearing a helmet back in the 3rd century. 

[BurgerGung]

Well, wouldn't he have planned to be "far away" by the time the SHTF?

 

Was he hanging around, waiting to get arrested?

 

Was he having gambling debt? (I know someone who almost destroyed his family with stupid football betting. and still, he is unwilling to even return the truck he hasn't paid the installments for or to price his house realistically to wipe out the debt and start again).

 

Where can one find the whole story?

 

Putting XXX million tHB into a savings account, what the the whole plan?!?

 

 

[Oziex1]

14 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Really? 4,000 years, he'll notice a few changes when he gets out!

Not in Thailand he won't 

[Bob12345]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

4,355 years in prison for 871 counts of indictment carrying a five-year jail term each

Did the judge read the verdict of each case separately?

Case 1: the courts verdict is guilty

Case 2: the courts verdict is guilty

Case 3: the courts verdict is guilty

Case 4: the courts verdict is guilty

...

 

You can fill in the rest yourself.