14 arrested in crackdown on money-lending network

By The Nation

 

 

Fourteen suspects were arrested for racketeering after police raided 30 locations in Bangkok and surrounding provinces in a crackdown on the "Yai Jeab" illegal money-lending network on Friday.

 

Immigration Police Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal said they were hunting for 28 wanted persons and aiming to collect incriminating documents and seize alleged ill-gotten assets. 

 

The simultaneous searches led to the arrest of 14 suspects for racketeering and overcharging loan interest charges and the seizure of assets worth Bt205.5 million, said Surachet, in his capacity as deputy director of the National Technology and IT Crime Suppression Centre. 

 

Among the locations searched was a house on Nimit Mai Road in Bangkok's Min Buri district where police netted four male suspects aged 19-28, including Thanwa Polyiam, 26, who allegedly led a handful of debt-collecting thugs to threaten and assault creditors, he said. 

 

Thanwa reportedly told police that his team earned Bt70,000 a month from working for the gang by collecting debts from some 100 creditors per day in Min Buri.

 

The gang's alleged leader Kannikar "Jeab Min Buri" Chalongchan and her 14 subordinates were arrested in November last year in the capital. 

 

She reportedly confessed to operating an illegal money-lending business that charged 20 per cent interest per 24 days, catered to about 400 creditors, and allegedly deployed violent debt-collectors. 

 

Police suspected that the network led by Kannikar - who took up the business after her husband Pairoj Chalongchan was arrested in 2016 over illegal money-lending charges - had a sum of Bt100 million rotating each day and were linked to local and national politicians, said Surachet.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30363768

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-02-08

Where's her picture?

they say 14 arrested and they were shooting for 28 thus still missing another 14... why they only show a photo of 4 shmockos covering their faces, where is the photo of the ring leader lady,  BJ  didn't had time for the show

preying on the weak and desperate, no different than child molesters and pimps - heavy sentences needed. 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Police suspected that the network led by Kannikar - who took up the business after her husband Pairoj Chalongchan was arrested in 2016 over illegal money-lending charges - had a sum of Bt100 million rotating each day and were linked to local and national politicians, said Surachet.

And still could going on for 2 more years and no arrested local and national politicians 

Just another story about bad and corrupt people 

But sorry people are stupid but ofcores desperate for loan money from mafia 

17 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

preying on the weak and desperate, no different than child molesters and pimps - heavy sentences needed. 

 

By "pimps", do you mean Mama Sans?  If they started arresting people for bar fining women, you'd have a mass exodus.

 

2 hours ago, tlandtday said:

Where's her picture?

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Edited February 8, 20197 yr by scorecard

41 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

By "pimps", do you mean Mama Sans?  If they started arresting people for bar fining women, you'd have a mass exodus.

 

I mean someone who deprives the freedom of another by physical  and or mental abuse and forces them to sell their body for money. If a girl can walk away anytime without repercussions, she is not imho under the control of a pimp.