The Department of Special Analysis (DSI) is preparing to summon four a lot more suspects, including a celebrity couple, to recognize charges for their alleged roles in a forex trading Ponzi scheme.
Prosecutors inquired the DSI to take legal action towards 16 more potential foods including singer Suteewan “Baitoey” Kunchorn plus Pattanapon “DJ Man” Mintakin on Aug 19.
In response, the DSI held a meeting recently, led by the director of casual financial business cases, Pol Capt Wissanu Chimtrakul, to conclude the situation.
According to Pol Capt Wissanu, the DSI will certainly firstly summon the celebrity couple plus two others in order to acknowledge charges next Thursday.
He said investigators discovered evidence to confirm their involvement in the scheme, such as irregular financial transactions and making efforts to convince others to join the scheme.
Investigators will also get information given by the couple in 2019 as state witnesses into consideration.
Prosecutors believe the couple’s actions possibly caused widespread harm with many people dropping for the scam because of their reputation and trustworthiness, while the other two were among group leaders, said Pol Capt Wissanu.
Initially, the four will face three charges which includes fraud, disseminating false information to the public that caused damage to people, and loan fraud — just like the charges for celebrity Sawika “Pinky” Chaiyadej who is currently being held in the Central Ladies Correctional Institution.
If the four fail to respond to the authorities summons, arrest police warrants will be issued, this individual said.
The DSI said that Sawika and the superstar couple were introduced as partners simply by Sawika’s brother, Kittichet Chaidet, who is also in prison.
The Forex-3D Ponzi scheme, which usually lured thousands of people to invest in what they considered to be foreign exchange trading with fake promises of high earnings, was run by Apiruk Kothi, 28.
He or she was arrested upon Jan 15 this past year, after more than a 12 months on the run.