Two held as ‘love triangle’ heist unravels

Siblings accused associated with B3. 4m robbery

Police have arrested a female and her youthful brother for colluding to stage a love triangle being a front to take advantage of her employer of 3. 4 million baht to help the brother pay off their debts in Chon Buri.

Prapaporn Boonmeesanom, 29, and Jatupol Boonmeesanom, 27, were nabbed at an apartment within Bangkok’s Phasi Charoen district yesterday. They were wanted on police arrest warrants issued with the Chon Buri provincial court.

They were charged with colluding to rob using a getaway vehicle and causing harm to others. According to the law enforcement, the robbery happened outside Bangkok Bank’s Ban Bung branch in Chon Buri on Tuesday.

That day, Ms Prapaporn, a good accountant of a corporation based in Chon Buri, arrived at the bank’s branch with Kritchapat (surname not given), the firm’s operater who drove the girl there.

She withdrew three or more. 5 million baht in cash for your company, of which a few. 46 million baht was put in a bag for Mister Kritchapat to carry as well as the rest placed in Ms Prapaporn’s sling handbag.

As they were walking to their car within the bank’s parking great deal, a man in a foods delivery uniform operating a motorcycle taken up, wielding that gun.

He began quarrelling with Microsoft Prapaporn before looking at Mr Kritchapat plus punching him. The man accused Mr Kritchapat of being romantically involved with Ms Prapaporn who he claimed to be his wife.

Mr Kritchapat ran away, offering the man the opportunity to get the bag with the company’s money and flee.

Police later discovered the motorcycle driver as Mr Jatupol and found the motorcycle abandoned inside a sugar cane industry in the district. Registration checks confirmed the car belonged to Mr Jatupol, enabling investigators to piece together the siblings’ love triangle plot.

It really is believed Mr Kritchapat had no understanding of the plot. The police asked the provincial court to issue warrants for the criminal arrest of the siblings. The court approved the request.

After the robbery, the particular siblings went into concealing at the apartment within Phasi Charoen district, where they were imprisoned. Police found the particular siblings had invested about 200, 500 baht of the stolen money.

Ms Prapaporn allegedly admitted she plus her brother worked well together on the adore triangle plot as well as the heist. She has been trying to help him to find money to pay off debts from a car loan and start a family.

Mr Jatupol told police he or she thought the bank go to by his sibling presented a golden opportunity for him to set up the robbery. Based on investigators, Mr Jatupol had also dropped money in a bitcoin investment.