Northern factory worker goes to the police after getting a million baht in her account instead of 10K salary

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported that a factory worker at an industrial estate in Lamphun in the north of Thailand went to the police after getting a shock when checking on a Krung Thai banking app as to whether her monthly salary had been paid.

 

She was due about 10,000 baht.

 

But when Sujitra, 36, from Nong Chang Kheun sub-district checked she had 1,063,863.15 baht in her account. 

 

Almost ten years wages!

 

She said her heart started pumping and she didn't know what to do at first fearing that a drugs gang was laundering money with her.

 

She decided to take half a day off and go with a friend to the bank who checked and found the money was really in her account.

 

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Bank staff said she should report it to the police first and this she did with the industrial estate force headed by Pol Col Weerachat Ratacharoen who advised her to come back again today.

 

Sanook quoted an unnamed senior police source as saying they think the money is connected to a 68 million baht fraud perpetrated by a dentist and relatives conning people out of money in relation to an iron or steel and mask business. 

 

Money was being transferred by the gang so that they might avoid capture. 

 

The source expected other people to come forward with sums of money transferred to their accounts. 

 

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[kcpattaya]

Meanwhile senior police adviced K Sujitra to transfer the money to the senior police's account for safekeeping...

 

[KhunBENQ]

?? And what does the "-" in front of the 1,063,863.15 mean.

Confused.

[fvw53]

What was the crime ? Why not go to the bank first ?

[pokerface1]

Interesting sounds like she reported the money appearing in her account out of fear rather than honesty. Perhaps she knows something we don't.

She could have just said nothing and left it there to see if the bank eventually removes the money.

[DezLez]

I hope she gets a reward for her honesty,

Why the bank told her to go to the police is a mystery!

[rwill]

So was the deposit from her employer or not?

 

Why would criminals deposit money in a strangers account?  Easy to deposit but harder to get it back out without help from someone working for the bank.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The source expected other people to come forward with sums of money transferred to their accounts. 

BRB... just checking my account.

[hotchilli]

43 minutes ago, DezLez said:

I hope she gets a reward for her honesty,

Why the bank told her to go to the police is a mystery!

If it was the company she was being honest in reporting it.

If it was dodgy money and she reported it to the police she cannot be found guilty of holding the money or being an accessory to a crime.

[mrfill]

Shows how good the anti-laundering detection is. Unexpected million appears in an account and not a soul questions it. Probably thought she was in the police.

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook quoted an unnamed senior police source as saying they think the money is connected to a 68 million baht fraud perpetrated by a dentist and relatives conning people out of money in relation to an iron or steel and mask business.

Please don't say the bank transferred it back

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, DezLez said:

I hope she gets a reward for her honesty,

Why the bank told her to go to the police is a mystery!

Maybe the bank was aware that the money was apparently being laundered? I suggest that they should have accompanied her to the police though.

[kidneyw]

Just checked my account.

Nope, no luck.

[RobU]

5 hours ago, fvw53 said:

What was the crime ? Why not go to the bank first ?

Please read the article again it says she took the day off and went to her bank who advised her to go to the police

[StayinThailand2much]

7 hours ago, rwill said:

So was the deposit from her employer or not?

 

Why would criminals deposit money in a strangers account?  Easy to deposit but harder to get it back out without help from someone working for the bank.

Maybe an accident, i.e. 'fat finger' when quickly transferring the money.

 

Perhaps the bank knew more about it, and suspected that the crooks would try to get the money back from the account holder. That would explain the advice to go to the police.

[brianthainess]

The first thing i would have done is go to the factories wage's office and thank them for the bonus.