Police Arrest Woman, Husband In Murder, Embezzlement Cases

[george]

FAKED DEATH

Police arrest woman, husband in murder, embezzlement cases

Man claims surprise at learning wife alive after tsunami

BANGKOK: -- Police announced yesterday the arrest of the daughter of former Phetchaburi MP Piya Angkinant, and her husband, for faking her death in the 2004 tsunami to escape embezzlement lawsuits.

Police said the couple are wanted in connection with 50 cases, with damages totalling Bt3 billion.

Besides being wanted for an oil company embezzlement worth Bt15 million, Kankanit Angkinant or Panjit Chinsiri, 43, had been sought for a total of 28 cases.

Her former Piyakit Group executive husband Chanchai Chinsiri, 47, is accused of involvement in 35 cases, including the 1993 murder of Sayamon Larpkorkiat, police said.

Kankanit was arrested yesterday morning in Bangkok's Sathorn area after sending her children to school; and Chanchai was arrested at his home in Yannawa district. Kankanit said tearfully she didn't understand why police had arrested her as she hadn't done anything wrong.

Police said a search at their home found Kankanit's death certificate, the couple's ID cards and namechanging certificates, Chanchai's card under the name Pongwit Sriwittayapong - an Internal Security Command official - oil business documents and two guns.

Following the tsunami, Chanchai filed a police complaint on December 31, 2004, that Kankanit was missing after a trip to Ranong's Koh Payam. Hours later he told police a body with Kankanit's ID card, credit cards and some cash was retrieved and taken to Ranong's Kapur pier.

Authorities, assuming Kapur police had collected fingerprints and evidence to identify the body as Kankanit, issued records for Chanchai to use in claiming the body for a funeral at a local temple and the issuing of a death certificate in Ranong's Muang district.

Chanchai used the death certificate to claim insurance money worth more than Bt2 million from two insurance firms - but so far he has only been partially paid, police said.

On August 1, 2005, the oil trading company, Chokchai Mahachai, filed a police complaint to investigate Kankanit's death, claiming she might conspire with her husband to stage her death to escape lawsuits. The investigation found Kankanit underwent a cosmetic operation in China to remove a mark from her face and possibly changed her nose and upper lip.

She also changed her name three times, the last occasion when she assumed the identity of a Payao Panwang from Samut Sakhon. When Payao tried to have her name registered in Nonthaburi's Bang Kruay district,officials cancelled her request after she was found to be using another identity. Police contacted the district office for her fingerprints and found they matched Kankanit's.

A source reported Chanchai insisted to police Kankanit went to Ranong at the time of the disaster and, after being told a body carrying his wife's ID card was found, he went to collect it for a funeral.

He claimed he was busy and didn't fuss about her identification check. Later, when his wife showed up, he didn't know what to do - so he let bygones be bygones.

-- The Nation 2009-03-27

[sriracha john]

The woman who supposedly died in the tsunami, and the same woman today.

Bangkok Post

Tsunami 'victim' held for fraud

Police have arrested the daughter of a former Phetchaburi MP who they claim faked her death in the tsunami four years ago and then underwent facial surgery and assumed a new identity to evade her creditors.

They had lent her and her husband more than 8 Billion Baht.

Crime Suppression Division police yesterday arrested Kankanit Angkinant, 48, daughter of Piya Angkinant, near a U-turn on Narathiwat Ratchanakharin road in Sathon.

Continued here:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/13...to-escape-debts

[TAWP]

Classy people... can I get a chance to borrow 8 BILLION baht too?

Edited March 27, 2009 by TAWP

[TPI]

FAKED DEATH

Police arrest woman, husband in murder, embezzlement cases

Man claims surprise at learning wife alive after tsunami

BANGKOK: -- Police announced yesterday the arrest of the daughter of former Phetchaburi MP Piya Angkinant, and her husband, for faking her death in the 2004 tsunami to escape embezzlement lawsuits.

Police said the couple are wanted in connection with 50 cases, with damages totalling Bt3 billion.

Besides being wanted for an oil company embezzlement worth Bt15 million, Kankanit Angkinant or Panjit Chinsiri, 43, had been sought for a total of 28 cases.

Her former Piyakit Group executive husband Chanchai Chinsiri, 47, is accused of involvement in 35 cases, including the 1993 murder of Sayamon Larpkorkiat, police said.

Kankanit was arrested yesterday morning in Bangkok's Sathorn area after sending her children to school; and Chanchai was arrested at his home in Yannawa district. Kankanit said tearfully she didn't understand why police had arrested her as she hadn't done anything wrong.

Police said a search at their home found Kankanit's death certificate, the couple's ID cards and namechanging certificates, Chanchai's card under the name Pongwit Sriwittayapong - an Internal Security Command official - oil business documents and two guns.

Following the tsunami, Chanchai filed a police complaint on December 31, 2004, that Kankanit was missing after a trip to Ranong's Koh Payam. Hours later he told police a body with Kankanit's ID card, credit cards and some cash was retrieved and taken to Ranong's Kapur pier.

Authorities, assuming Kapur police had collected fingerprints and evidence to identify the body as Kankanit, issued records for Chanchai to use in claiming the body for a funeral at a local temple and the issuing of a death certificate in Ranong's Muang district.

Chanchai used the death certificate to claim insurance money worth more than Bt2 million from two insurance firms - but so far he has only been partially paid, police said.

On August 1, 2005, the oil trading company, Chokchai Mahachai, filed a police complaint to investigate Kankanit's death, claiming she might conspire with her husband to stage her death to escape lawsuits. The investigation found Kankanit underwent a cosmetic operation in China to remove a mark from her face and possibly changed her nose and upper lip.

She also changed her name three times, the last occasion when she assumed the identity of a Payao Panwang from Samut Sakhon. When Payao tried to have her name registered in Nonthaburi's Bang Kruay district,officials cancelled her request after she was found to be using another identity. Police contacted the district office for her fingerprints and found they matched Kankanit's.

A source reported Chanchai insisted to police Kankanit went to Ranong at the time of the disaster and, after being told a body carrying his wife's ID card was found, he went to collect it for a funeral.

He claimed he was busy and didn't fuss about her identification check. Later, when his wife showed up, he didn't know what to do - so he let bygones be bygones.

-- The Nation 2009-03-27

It's only 8 billion, what's the problem?? They are well born so they can be forgiven for being a little stupid??

[samuibeachcomber]

so the police can do their job when they want to.

[sriracha john]

Crime Suppression Division police yesterday arrested Kankanit Angkinant, 48, daughter of Piya Angkinant

Piya was an MP with the Thai Rak Thai Party who, as not one of the 111 banned, lost as a People Power Party candidate in the 2008 General Election.

The "family", as in so many other places in Thailand, is a "family" that continues to exert a lot of localized power in their area of Phetchaburi. The 6-time elected MP Piya's son, Chaiya, (and who is brother of the arrested Kankanit), was elected PAO Chief (Provincial Administration Organisation) in the local April 2008 elections. Chaiya's team also won 19 seats on the Provincial Council.

He's also described in this manner in a South China Morning Post article:

Another is mobster Piya Angkinant, whose gang is known as The Khaki Mob for its close police and military connections. He doesn't need bodyguards because, ...

(unfortunately, the rest is only available to paid subscribers of the SCMP)

[jamesjdaly]

Another corrupt nail in the corrupt coffin of the corrupt TRT/PPP/PT alliance.

[londonthai]

with that money the whole family could live anywhere in the world, the further from thailand the better. Now it's a life sentence for both

[BigSnake]

My thought: after doing a little hard time in the women's Bangkok Hilton she might wish she was dead.

[Scott]

It would be interesting to see who all attended her funeral. Maybe she was even there! Meanwhile, I wonder who really died.

[brahmburgers]

am glad I'm not mixed up with them and their ilk.

[mrt273nva]

she only has one black eye. i think she needs to be told again!!!

[Loaded]

It's just a misunderstanding that will be resolved when some payments are made.

They will have learned a hard lesson from this case: pay the local police where you currently live as well.

[TheWalkingMan]

Wow. Talk about a couple of bad eggs.

[ExoticMatter]

I wonder if their kids have spent the partial insurance payout yet?

Would it be unfair to say that the facelift was warranted anyway.

[johnefallis]

This is the kind of people that are running this country and while so many extremely poor, they are absconding with hundreds of millions of dollars. No chance all that money will be recovered. I think they should make the family repay ALL of it, AND ban the entire lineage from ever holding public office or owning a company or property, sort of like getting a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Military, only this being a dishonorable discharge from Thai society.

Civil war will happen here sooner as opposed to later, somebody take note of their addresses, we can get rid of them all then.

[sassienie]

I agree with many points made by, Johnefallis, who is shouting his head off above me here. These are the sorts of people that are running the country.

There is a witch hunt going on with Mr Thaksin, ip, dip he’s it, but these people and many more like them are actively continuing on they’re sordid business unhindered with impunity.

Some of the hierarchy here is rotten to the core. These perpetrators of evil should be taken out by ways of a proper incorruptible legal system through the courts.

Eliminating corruption from the Thai system would be the key to this success.

[sriracha john]

A new twist to Kankanit's faked death

Kankanit Angkinand's fake death case has turned up a new twist following police speculation that one person was possibly killed to fabricate the death of her husband's aide.

A police source said yesterday that Kankanit's husband, Charnchai Chinsiri, might be involved in the attempted murder of a Burmese fisherman not long after the 2004 tsunami, with the help of a man known as Wilas. The murder was aimed at faking the death of Wilas (surname not available), so Charnchai could benefit from two insurance deals.

According to the source, both Charnchai and Wilas lured the fisherman to board a boat moored off the Ranong coast. Later, they attacked the victim and threw his body into the sea thinking he was dead. A Thai-language daily said the man survived and swam back to shore, but never lodged a complaint with police for fear of action against him as an illegal immigrant. He has now disappeared.

Charnchai later received 4 Million Baht from two insurance policies and shared the proceeds with Wilas - a 45 year-old native of neighbouring Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officers are looking for the Burmese man and his wife, who had lodged a missing person complaint with the police, so their testimony can be used against Charnchai.

Police will also look into all payments made by insurance companies in relation with the fake deaths of both Charnchai, 47, and Kankanit, 43, and would prosecute anyone involved in the fraud.

District officials at Muang Ranong have reportedly grown reluctant in cooperating with police or the media, possibly fearing consequences of their own alleged wrongdoings in issuing false death certificates and several other documents found to have been fabricated.

Both Kankanit, a daughter of veteran [Thai Rak Thai] Phetchaburi MP Piya Angkinand, and her husband have been accused of fraud and embezzlement totalling more than 8 Billion Baht. Chanchai is also accused of murdering Sayamon Larpkorkiat in 1993.

Police are looking for the two women who brought a female corpse to the Pak Nam Ranong police station on December 31, 2004 claiming it was Kankanit.

The women, whose names were not recorded by police, said they had rented a boat from Kankanit before the tsunami on December 26, and went out to search for her after she disappeared.

Police records said Kankanit's ID card and credit cards in her name were found on the body.

A CSD officer in Bangkok said Charnchai has used four aliases, one of which is Wilas Sae-Lor, the name of a real 34 year-old native of Nakhon Si Thammarat.

- The Nation / 2009-03-31

Edited March 31, 2009 by sriracha john

[ExoticMatter]

Certainly makes John Darwin look very tame indeed