Couple arrested for alleged Bt1.52m police promotion scam

By The Nation

 

 

Police has arrested a Thai couple for allegedly conning 10 policemen out of a total of Bt1.52 million by using fake Line accounts to give false promises of police promotions in the annual reshuffle.

 

Crime Suppression Division commander Pol Lt-General Suthin Sappoung told a press conference on Friday that the couple claimed the Line accounts belonged to national police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda and Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal.

 

Kittisak Siriwittayawong, 32 and Pailin Wee-eubkaew, 29, who had an aluminium product-manufacturing factory together, were arrested on February 27 in a parking lot in Bangkok's Bang Khae district. 

 

They are facing charges of fraud and violation of the Computer Act (inputting false information onto computer system resulting in damages to others). The offence is punishable with a maximum one-year imprisonment and/or a maximum Bt500,000 fine.

 

Kittisak reportedly confessed during police interrogation and Pailin maintained she was innocent.

 

Suthin said that the suspects made use of their knowledge of police system's information to commit the alleged crime. 

 

Kittisak was accused of duping the damaged persons since January 2018. He claimed to know the senior officers' personal Line accounts, although they were bogus and allegedly created by Kittisak.

 

He allegedly hooked the victims to those accounts and used them to "borrow" cash from the victims. 

 

Pol Colonel Siriwat Deepor, a superintendent of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), said the arrests were made after some of the duped policemen grew suspicious and filed a complaint with TCSD.

 

Deputy national police spokesman Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said that the Royal Thai Police had no position-trading policy and that the national police chief would press charges against those involved. 

 

The police force would also set a committee to probe the case and hand out disciplinary punishments to the officers involved.

 

Later on Friday, police escorted the couple to Ratchadapisek Criminal Court to apply for their first 12-day detention and objected to bail release on grounds of a flight risk.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30365035

 

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Criminals are criminals, but you have to admire the sheer nerve of conning policemen out of cash in a promotion scam....

 

 

Er... Ahem... Send them to jail!

 

 

 

 

Police has arrested a Thai couple for allegedly conning 10 policemen out of a total of Bt1.52 million by using fake Line accounts to give false promises of police promotions in the annual reshuffle.

 

So these 10 policemens should be aressted too if I understood the headliner and contents right.

They are conned, SO they are willing to give teamoney and sending around brown enveloppes just to gain promotions that suited them instead of what they really earned by really working for their reputations.

You have to commend the Police officers for dedicating their lives to honesty, decency & serving the "democracy 

By buying into corruption  ????

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Police has arrested a Thai couple for allegedly conning 10 policemen out of a total of Bt1.52 million by using fake Line accounts to give false promises of police promotions in the annual reshuffle.

 

"false" promises is the operative cause of arrest here.

Of course there are dozens (hundreds ?) of such schemes going on in Thailand, it's an open secret that many promotions to higher ranks are bought.

and here we are again with the envelop for promotional purposes not for merit purpose... should question how these 10 policemen got their original police certificate (if they have one)

Just now, manarak said:

 

"false" promises is the operative cause of arrest here.

Of course there are dozens (hundreds ?) of such schemes going on in Thailand, it's an open secret that many promotions to higher ranks are bought.

and I thought they were passed from generation to generation

kind of blind leading the blind??

52 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

conning 10 policemen

 

So the very ones who routinely con and cheat their way up the ranks have been conned themselves this time around? How ironic. Well, what goes around, comes around.

Edited March 1, 20197 yr by Misterwhisper

Dont tell me, They have a brother who is a BIG policeman usual crap

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Deputy national police spokesman Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said that the Royal Thai Police had no position-trading policy ...

 

It's not a policy, it's a culture.

(allegedly )

It's hilarious that 10 serving police officers fell for this scam.

 

This shows just how things work inside the Thai Police.

Edited March 1, 20197 yr by ukrules

I seem to remember something remarkably similar happened last year?

 

Obviously no culture of learning from past mistakes then...

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Bt1.52m police promotion scam

How good does it get? The RTP scammers are themselves scammed to the hilt. I just love it! 

Police...Promotion...Scam

 

That pretty much says it all

it would seem you have to *BUY* your position in all walks of life here, i had a  *REQUEST* from a lady i had not seen for 3 years, to *SPONSOR* her (give her money) so she could become office manager for a large insurance company, how sad is that,  when one has to pay a bribe to better oneself, i hear it happens even on the refuse vehicles

in addition what purpose would critical thinking serve in a largely "non merit based" society? why actually study or apply oneself when it all boils down to a bribe?

Edited March 2, 20197 yr by atyclb

I have a friend who paid money to an unspecified thai'ish lady for receiving oral sex. All was not as promised, I have sympathy for these hopefuls. To be completely honest I was so involved in the moment I did not do a panty check, my bad. Stupid is as stupid does especially on the internet.

17 hours ago, CGW said:

You have to commend the Police officers for dedicating their lives to honesty, decency & serving the "democracy 

By buying into corruption  ????

I just love this one... bent coppers getting scammed by their own greed !

Didn't someone quite high up say fairly recently ' Thais don't cheat Thais', ? that's reserved for us foreigners ???????? 

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy national police spokesman Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said that the Royal Thai Police had no position-trading policy 

 

If this was true, the officers wouldn't have paid the money.

19 hours ago, manarak said:

 

"false" promises is the operative cause of arrest here.

Of course there are dozens (hundreds ?) of such schemes going on in Thailand, it's an open secret that many promotions to higher ranks are bought.

I also think some of them invent their own ranks, ribbons, decorations etc. 

Edited March 2, 20197 yr by possum1931

 

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Suthin said that the suspects made use of their knowledge of police system's information to commit the alleged crime. 

 

The article says the arrested pair used their "knowledge" of police systems to perpetrate their scam.

 

But the article doesn't say HOW they gained said knowledge or from who???  Perhaps there are some other details not being explained...

 

 

Edited March 2, 20197 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

23 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Criminals are criminals, but you have to admire the sheer nerve of conning policemen out of cash in a promotion scam....

 

 

Er... Ahem... Send them to jail!

 

 

 

 

The sheer nerve of the fraudsters is minor compared to the sheer stupidity triggered by greed, of the cops who fell for it. 

So funny! A PERFECT Thai story in this cartoon country 

This is only a crime when a non-policeman tries to do it. When a cop takes tea money to offer a promotion, it's legit.