Bank, staff and daughter ordered to return 200 MB to grandmother - a wake up call to banks not to trust their staff, says lawyer

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that the civil case brought by an old lady called Huay Sriwirat was settled at the Phrakhanong court yesterday.

 

When Huay - known in the Thai media as amah, a kind of nanny in Chinese/Thai families - went into hospital her daughter connived with Kasikorn bank staff to get at her savings.

 

Lawyer Ananchai Chaidech said that the resolution of the case should be a wake up call to banks not to trust their staff.

 

The court ordered the defendants in the case to return 207 million baht to Huay plus varying rates of interest back and forward dated.

 

The defendants were the bank itself, four of its staff and the victim's second child, her daughter Mawadee Sririrat.

 

The daughter and two of the staff members falsely changed access to the old lady's accounts while she was sick.

 

Documents were falsified with fake signatures. 

 

 

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[BritManToo]

So much for Thais respecting their elders.

[2baht]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

a wake up call to banks not to trust their staff.

Yes, there was a time when crooks robbed banks, now the worm has turned, banks rob customers!

 

 

Edited January 20, 2023 by 2baht

[foreverlomsak]

6 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Yes, there was a time when crooks robbed banks, now the worm has turned, banks rob customers!

 

 

the banks have always been good at that they apply charges to the accounts for the slightest thing and don't give interest on the balance.

[Laughing Gravy]

10 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

So much for Thais respecting their elders.

Yes i agree with you. I have to say when it comes to money blood is definitely thicker than water. I have never known such an obsessed nation so obsessed with money. From the taxi driver asking how much your salary is to the middle classes never satisfied with what they have. 

 

I won a million baht, why wasn't it 10 million.  For a Buddhist country which is not supposedly meant to be obsessed with money, the reality is very different . My faith in Buddhism was shattered when I saw a monk with 3 iPhone's. I have seen countless other incidents which shows that it is quite a farce.

 

No doubt the apologists will be here to defend this but from my opinion of 20 years within Thailand, when it comes to money many people have little morals. This story just highlights this and confirms what I have seen and know.

[Joseph98765]

7 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

Yes i agree with you. I have to say when it comes to money blood is definitely thicker than water. I have never known such an obsessed nation so obsessed with money. From the taxi driver asking how much your salary is to the middle classes never satisfied with what they have. 

 

I won a million baht, why wasn't it 10 million.  For a Buddhist country which is not supposedly meant to be obsessed with money, the reality is very different . My faith in Buddhism was shattered when I saw a monk with 3 iPhone's. I have seen countless other incidents which shows that it is quite a farce.

 

No doubt the apologists will be here to defend this but from my opinion of 20 years within Thailand, when it comes to money many people have little morals. This story just highlights this and confirms what I have seen and know.

every single thing here is about money, true... even the girls who are with 75 years old men and when they are having a meal she even don't look at his face (playing with her new iPhone that he bought ) when he is talking..but when the bill comes...she pass it to him.

[2baht]

16 minutes ago, foreverlomsak said:

the banks have always been good at that they apply charges to the accounts for the slightest thing and don't give interest on the balance.

..............................and make humungus profits and get huge bonuses!

[sqwakvfr]

When it is about Money (Dollars, Baht, Yen, Euro, or Yuan) no rules and family means nothing.  

[Liverpool Lou]

35 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

So much for Thais respecting their elders.

So much for this one Thai respecting her elder, she is not representative of Thais in general.

[BritManToo]

Just now, Liverpool Lou said:

So much for this one Thai respecting her elder, she is not representative of Thais in general.

I think there was a few bank staff involved as well.

[Liverpool Lou]

23 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

No doubt the apologists will be here to defend this

Why do you disparagingly condemn those who may have a different opinion (based on their experiences) to your opinion as being "apologists"?  What is that all about?

[worgeordie]

Nothing worse than family when it comes to money, in my case anyway,

you have it, they want it, 

 

No mention in this case what sentences were given to those guilty of

quite a few serious charges , I hope not just paying money back with

interest.

 

I see a civil case , what about criminal charges ????

 

regards Worgeordie 

Edited January 20, 2023 by worgeordie

[Liverpool Lou]

6 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

So much for this one Thai respecting her elder, she is not representative of Thais in general.

I think there was a few bank staff involved as well.

It wouldn't matter if there were a hundred staff involved, your suggestion that this was stereotypical Thai behaviour would still be wildly unfair and wrong.

[Liverpool Lou]

4 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

No mention in this case what sentences were given to those guilty of quite a few serious charges

This was a civil, not criminal case, there are no sentences due, nor judgements of guilt, just a court order.  

Edited January 20, 2023 by Liverpool Lou

[KannikaP]

The daughter would have got a proportion of the money when Mum kicked it anyway.

Bht 207 M is a LOT of money for an older lady to have sitting in the bank.

[worgeordie]

1 minute ago, Liverpool Lou said:

This was a civil, not criminal case, there are no sentences due, nor judgements of guilt, just a court order.  

Yes I referenced that at the end of my post ....why no criminal charges ,

as it looks to me a few have been committed.

 

regards worgeordie

[Henryford]

I hope the old lady changes her will so the daughter gets nothing.

[kcpattaya]

I sincerly hope that her greedy daughter Mawadee Sririrat ends up getting excluded from their Will.

[LomSak27]

41 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Yes, there was a time when crooks robbed banks, now the worm has turned, banks rob customers!

Banks have been doing that for a long time in LOS. Imagine a naive backpacker. A cash advance on visa card. They make two receipts, flip the numbers and add zeros. Lucky the original receipt was kept which showed 100 US had been advanced, in baht, not 2,500 USD !! I doubt Visa ever got their money back, by the way.

NOTE - Attorney says this was a 'misunderstanding', and after 38 years, the bank, branch location, cannot be specifically recalled due to premature senility & alcohol abuse, .... hmmmmm  Ok. 

 

[Rimmer]

A racist slur has been removed

[brianthainess]

45 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

The daughter would have got a proportion of the money when Mum kicked it anyway.

Bht 207 M is a LOT of money for an older lady to have sitting in the bank.

Why ?

[brianthainess]

1 hour ago, foreverlomsak said:

the banks have always been good at that they apply charges to the accounts for the slightest thing and don't give interest on the balance.

Change your bank, 2 banks I am with one pays 0.9% the other 1.5%

[stoner]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

So much for Thais respecting their elders.

one of the many smiles right ?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

The daughter would have got a proportion of the money when Mum kicked it anyway.

Bht 207 M is a LOT of money for an older lady to have sitting in the bank.

You're not suggesting that the theft is ok because the woman has a lot of money, are you?  How could you know what is in the woman's will, she may not have left anything to that daughter.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

Yes I referenced that at the end of my post ....why no criminal charges ,

as it looks to me a few have been committed.

 

regards worgeordie

Maybe she didn't want to prosecute, just wanted her money back?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

The daughter would have got a proportion of the money when Mum kicked it anyway.

Bht 207 M is a LOT of money for an older lady to have sitting in the bank.

She had a lot more than that, B207m is just what the daughter stole.

[Thailand]

Not nice, hope the rest of the family are better. And scary with the bank!

 

Can you adopt a granny in Thailand?

[Photoguy21]

Asking the banks to take more care is a waste of time. They take little interest in such things even when you report scammers to them with the scammers bank details.

[Neeranam]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

the Thai media as amah, a kind of nanny in Chinese/Thai families

nanny?

 

It's a grandmother.

[Neeranam]

2 hours ago, Laughing Gravy said:

My faith in Buddhism was shattered when I saw a monk with 3 iPhone's.

You have little faith or don't know about Thai men going into monkhood for a week or so.