Charges imminent in ‘Sin Sae Shogun’ case

By The Nation

 

File photo: Pasit “Sin Sae Shogun” Ariyalapit

 

BANGKOK: -- Police are set to formally charge Pasit “Sin Sae Shogun” Ariyalapit with fraud over a travel junket debacle that left more than 1,000 would-be tourists stranded at Suvarnabhumi Airport in April.

 

A press conference regarding the case is scheduled for Friday, following a meeting on Wednesday of the case investigators.

 

Pasit, founder and chief executive of food-supplement distributor WealthEver, will complete a seventh court-approved period of detention on Saturday (June 24).

 

She and nine others are accused of costing 517 people Bt51 million and face charges of public fraud, racketeering, and violations of the Emergency Decree on Obtaining Loans Amounting to Public Cheating and Fraud, the Computer Act, Customs Act and Food and Drug Act. 

 

The Anti-Money Laundering Office is also scrutinising the suspects’ financial transactions and mulling legal action, prosecutors said.

 

The case stems from complaints by many of the 1,000 people whose promised charter jet to Tokyo for a three-day Songkran trip they’d paid for never materialised, leaving them stranded at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.

 

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The verdict is probably already written on the wall, but the hardest decision the judges will yet have to make is whether to send the creature to a male or a female correctional facility. Even the cops in the OP pic muster the defendant with suspicion, big question marks appearing on their faces.  

More assets seized in ‘Sin Sae Shogun’ case
By Piyanuch Tamnukasetchai
The Nation

 

Pasit “Sin Sae Shogun” Ariyalapit

 

BANGKOK: -- The transactions committee of the Anti-Money Laundering Office has decided to confiscate 90 more items belonging to a network run by accused fraudster Pasit “Sin Sae Shogun” Ariyalapit, AMLO chief Pol Gen Chaiya Siri-amphankul said on Thursday.

 

The assets together worth Bt1 million were believed to have been purchased with illegally earned money. They include Bt140,000 in cash as well as gold ornaments, computers and cell-phones.

 

Chaiya said the AMLO would also assume temporary control of a condominium unit in Nonthaburi province already impounded by the Crime Suppression Division. 

 

He said the office is now waiting for people in the network to explain how they came to possess the assets.

Police are set to submit the case to public prosecutors on Friday. 

 

Pasit, founder and chief executive of food-supplement distributor WealthEver, and nine others face charges over an alleged pyramid investment scheme and a travel junket debacle that left more than 1,000 would-be tourists stranded at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport in April.

 

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