Money transfer shop owner cheated the migrant workers families

The owner of a Wing money transfer shop in Battambang province was charged yesterday with cheating more than one million Thai baht ($28,000) from Cambodian laborers who sent money via her shop to their families. Chea Somaly, 32, was charged by the provincial court prosecutor with fraud.
 

Mong Russey district police officer Sok Vuth said that in December dozens of laborers in Thailand sent the money via Ms. Somaly’s shop in Por 1 village. But when the families came to collect the money, she did not give it to them and asked to delay payment day after day. On Monday morning, 11 villagers came again to collect the money, but she still refused.
 

The villagers then filed a lawsuit with the Battambang Provincial Court. District police, acting on a court warrant, arrested her and she was sent to the provincial court for questioning on the same day.

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