Bail denied to Thai woman who tricked professor out of millions with past life scheme

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Bail denied to woman who tricked professor out of millions with past life scheme
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bail request from Pemmika Veerachatraksit, who has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for deceiving Applied Physics tutor Prakitpao Tomtitchong into giving her and her friends gifts and cash worth more than THB9 million .

The court rejected the request, arguing that there was no need to review the case again, since two lower courts had already agreed on her conviction. The court also said that Pemmika posed a flight risk if she were granted bail.

In 2010, the Criminal Court ruled that Pemmika, who graduated in psychology from Chulalongkorn University, had deceived tutorial school owner Prakitpao into believing they had been a couple in a past life and that he had abused her. He gave her money and gifts because she led him to believe it was just compensation for the past abuse, the court said.

Pemmika was sentenced to four years and six months in jail for fraud and attempted fraud.

She claimed that the money and gifts were given out of love and appealed her conviction. But the Appeals Court last week upheld the lower court's decision. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/10/02/bail-denied-woman-who-tricked-professor-out-millions-past-life-scheme


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2013-10-02

[winstonc]

fantastic......hes a bright lad isnt he.....

[Tatsujin]

Why didn't she get bail when the likes of Sondhi and Thaksin et al all seem to get bail for everything they do wrong? She didn't offer enough in bribes to the right people?

[scobie redux]

The weirdest thing about this is that she convinced an Applied Physics professor of something so nonsensical. I mean, of all the disciplines, surely Applied Physics would be the one least likely to believe in nonsense such as past lives.

Good grief.

[soi41]

What an excellent business-idea! "You owe me money from a past life"

Send her to jail and him to a mental hospital !!

[Bung]

What? Denied bail because she posed a flight risk?

I thought all Thais get bail here regardless?

[yourauntbob]

A fool and his money are soon parted

[uty6543]

Glad to see their belief in reincarnation is not believed by the courts and happy the court ordered her to give back 8M THB. Criminals should not profit from their crimes.

[chrisinth]

fantastic......hes a bright lad isnt he..... width=18 alt=w00t.gif>

He might be a great academic, but not the person to send to the corner shop for my cigs & newspaper................

[itchybum]

The weirdest thing about this is that she convinced an Applied Physics professor of something so nonsensical. I mean, of all the disciplines, surely Applied Physics would be the one least likely to believe in nonsense such as past lives.

Good grief.

Depends where he got his degree from .....maybe a past life

[itchybum]

But really, if you talk a fool into giving you money....should you be arrested and sent to jail for 4 plus years ?

What does she look like...any pics ??

In the past life would be more appropriate I guess.

[soi41]

So guys next time a lady try to pick you up from a bar, using the "haven't we met before" opener, be careful, be very careful !

[bunnaag]

what crime did she actually commit?She only told him a story she did not put a gun to his head and forced him to believe it.

[DocN]

Wait,wait,wait....WHAT?

She lied him into BELIEVING, that they were somehow related in a previous life and that he abused her and therefore he paid her 9 million Baht?!

So she goes to jail for that and is granted no bail?

So...if you are just a good liar and you find an idiot, who is so stupid to believe your vodoo-mambo-jambo-stories and pays you a frooging amount of money...

...but if you kill people with a Ferrari or a shot in the face, if you drive without license and kill 9 people, if you breach security at an airport, if you preach fire and brimstone at a demonstration, if you kidnap a little girl and torture her for 7 years...you are more or less free to go????

I just don't get it!

[itchybum]

Wait,wait,wait....WHAT?

She lied him into BELIEVING, that they were somehow related in a previous life and that he abused her and therefore he paid her 9 million Baht?!

So she goes to jail for that and is granted no bail?

So...if you are just a good liar and you find an idiot, who is so stupid to believe your vodoo-mambo-jambo-stories and pays you a frooging amount of money...

...but if you kill people with a Ferrari or a shot in the face, if you drive without license and kill 9 people, if you breach security at an airport, if you preach fire and brimstone at a demonstration, if you kidnap a little girl and torture her for 7 years...you are more or less free to go????

I just don't get it!

I get it.

Its called Land Of Smiles.

[mrtoad]

Is there any difference here to he other numerous scams that Farang have endured in relationships?

[robblok]

While this it totally unbelievable as an atheist I wonder how many of the people commenting here are Christians as that is as unbelievable as the multiple lives of Buddhists. Just an other brand of mental illness that has never been supported by proof. I mean you can't slander a religion while believing in one yourself as there is no proof for any religion. Then the religious say that is done so by god to make believing a task else its too easy (there is an answer for everything)

[kotsak]

Same punishment should be applied to organized religion.. :>

[Confuscious]

After several hours of deliberation, we grant the Darwin's award to applied Physics tutor Prakitpao Tomtitchong.

[phitsanulokjohn]

fantastic......hes a bright lad isnt he.....

Of cause he is, you don't get to be a professor by being silly.Do you? No ones immune from a scam,keep your think cap on.

[jalansanitwong]

Where does a lowly paid Thai teacher find 9 million baht to throw away on a whim.

[DocN]

After several hours of deliberation, we grant the Darwin's award to applied Physics tutor Prakitpao Tomtitchong.

You mean "minutes", don't you?

[Neurath]

While this it totally unbelievable as an atheist I wonder how many of the people commenting here are Christians as that is as unbelievable as the multiple lives of Buddhists. Just an other brand of mental illness that has never been supported by proof. I mean you can't slander a religion while believing in one yourself as there is no proof for any religion. Then the religious say that is done so by god to make believing a task else its too easy (there is an answer for everything)

Amen to that. Temples/Churches get wealthy by encouraging people to believe what? Doesn't seem to me that this woman did anything out of the ordinary.

[cooked]

Maybe she can serve her sentence in a future life.

[Thai at Heart]

Oh my lord.

Maybe she should try to brainwash the judge? No bail, but murderers can get bail? If convincing someone to give cash willingly to something is illegal, every temple in the country might be in trouble.

Bizarre...

[Artisi]

Don't try too hard to figure this one out, just sit back , relax and enjoy comedy hour - and it comes free.

[Mampara]

Wonders will never cease in Thailand.

[Mampara]

What about the Thai women that con the felangs out of millions in fixed assets, can they be prosecuted too?

[jmccarty]

Where does a lowly paid Thai teacher find 9 million baht to throw away on a whim.

The article says he owned the school. Probably more than one and other business interests as well.

Some people here live on another planet than the rest of us. Looks funny from the outside, but when you see these people analyzing gold religious amulets closely, and then paying a lot more than they are worth for a lot of them. And they are not paying for the monetary value. You shake your head in disbelief. But this is the planet they live on.

[Briggsy]

If anybody wishes to read the story, he was drugged apparently.

However I suspect this is a power battle, professors at universities here have a lot of influence. Remember the one in Udon Thani or Nong Khai who battered his wife to death and got a suspended sentence.

If a foreigner had been taken for this amount, no way would it have had the same result.