Duo apparently converted money from romance-investment fraud to bitcoin
Described: 20 Feb 2025 at 15: 37
A Chinese woman and her Thai partner have been detained in a housing estate in the Bang Phli area in connection with romance-investment schemes that defrauded victims of 91 million baht.
Zhou Zhou, 29, and Alisa Lamkrathok, a 31-year-old native of Nakhon Ratchasima, were arrested at the Indy 4 cover house in tambon Bang Kaew on Wednesday, said Pol Maj Gen Theeradet Thumsuthee, assistant director of the Metropolitan Police Bureau.
Authorities also searched their house and found 102 banks certificates, 70 bank cards, about 1, 000 SIM cards, four mobile phones, a notebook computer and a Toyota Yaris vehicles.
The group allegedly engaged in romantic con artists and therefore defrauded patients, according to Pol Maj Gen Theeradet. One victim was persuaded to invest in a TikTok store in Singapore, but she only received promised results for a short while.
According to the police, the arrested suspects allegedly used a well-known Thai digital money exchange company to change their patients ‘ bitcoins.
Ms. Zhou admitted to working with the authorities to create digital wallets and animal accounts. She claimed she persuaded her Thai girl to leave her teaching position and assist her in getting people to start donkey accounts because she could not speak Thai.
The 102 banks passport seized by Pol Maj Gen Theeradet were connected to 132 online fraud complaints, which totaled 91.2 million baht, according to Pol Maj Gen Theeradet.
In the same situation, authorities have even arrested three Thais. The deputy director claimed that two of them were about to have the next open a bank account for the Foreign woman’s group at Ramkhamhaeng 2 University.