More than 50 vehicles were obtained and sold by class duped rental companies outside of Thailand.
PUBLISHED: 8 May 2025 at 14: 27
A self-promoting influence is behind the arrest of a group of four in Thailand for allegedly stealing more than 50 automobiles from rental companies and bringing them out of the state.
Just Patarajarin, 27, was identified as the suspected genius. Top bridge police officials said at a press conference on Thursday that his three adult partners were Mananchaya, Pornpan, and Nawarat.
Mr. Patarajarin, a student at the university, claimed he had received a business venture honor. He then began using social media to promote himself, taking pictures with well-known influencers, and displaying his money and business endeavors.
He urged people to participate in fictitious business ventures through cultural advertising. Three women and an old enterprise owner over 70 were both drawn to one invitation.
Mr. Patarajarin contacted rental companies and fabricated representations of a meat butcher in the Lam Phak Chee neighborhood of Bangkok’s Nong Chok district to set up the vehicle thefts.
Representatives from car rental companies were shown the operation and informed that it needed to hire numerous brand-new pickup trucks to deliver chicken meat.
The old business owner’s business registration documents were used by the group to rent brand-new pickups after being invited via social media to visit a business partnership.
One of the three girls served as the company’s producer. Another female handled vehicle acceptance and rental deals, and the second transferred advance rental payments via bank branches. Five-year leases were created.
After the party took distribution of the cabs, another group still at large turned off the GPS in the automobiles. The rental companies then raised suspicions of fraud and reported complaints to the authorities. Eventually, highway authorities discovered 14 brand-new Toyota Hilux Revo Prerunner pickups close to the Laos and Myanmar border.
Four businesses had stolen the cars, totaling about 12 million baht, from them.
Mr. Patarajarin was detained on Tuesday as he contacted another rental car company to “rent” 10 more cabs.
The Toyota delivery model with an increased chassis was famous in neighboring nations, according to police, and the vehicles were most likely to have been brought out of Thailand after being discovered in border regions.
Bridge patrols concluded that the group had been in operation for at least two years and had stolen more than 50 automobiles. They claimed it was the first instance in which a fictitious business was set up to take cars on such a massive scale.
On Thursday, bridge police chief Pol Maj Gen Kongkrit Lertsitthikul leads a press conference about the vehicle-theft circle. ( Screenshot )