PUBLISHED: 7 Nov 2024 at 13: 47
In connection with a banker’s most recent incident that she lost 71 million ringgit to him, authorities detained high-profile attorney Sittra Biabungkerd and his family on a bridge in Chachoengsao’s Bang Khla district, west of Bangkok, on Thursday morning and charged them with fraud and money laundering.
While they were driving their Porsche Cayenne on a highway section leaving Bangkok, Mr. Sittra and Ms. Pathitta Biabungkerd were detained by the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ) officers.
The CIB requested that the couple’s imprisonment occur the same day that the Criminal Court issued permits for their arrest.
Mr. Sittra was accused of money laundering and forgery. His family faces charges of laundering income.
They were brought to the Crime Suppression Division ( CSD ) for prosecution.
Mr. Sittra made an appearance at the CSD on Tuesday to ask for questioning from the authorities in a situation involving a billionaire who claimed to have defrauded a Thai person of$ 71 million from him through a alleged online lottery job. The girl gave the money to the lawyer as a present, the lawyer claimed.
Jatuporn” Madame Oy” Ubonlert, 58, had just filed a complaint with the police and had been questioning by questioning herself many days before the arrest warrant was issued.
The lady, a native of Nakhon Ratchasima state, apparently lived with her French partner in France and won a EuroMillions prize it for about 10 billion ringgit.
In Kanchanaburi state, Mr. Sittra previously made headlines by representing a retired policeman in a 30-million-baht lottery ticket theft case and by bringing a charge of money laundering against a former federal police chief.