A close friend of Dr. Boon Vanasin, the runaway founder of Thon Buri Healthcare Group, was detained by special investigators on Monday night at Suvarnabhumi airport for massive , common fraud.
Thitiporn Chalermrattanapratheep, 39, who had previously escaped into cowering in China, was detained when she returned to Thailand. She is the 14th person to be detained in the case and is alleged to be a member of the legal system connected to Dr. Boon, 86, who is still at large.
Pol Capt Wisanu Chimtrakul, deputy director of the Department of Special Investigation, and Pol Lt Gen Samarn Nuanma, associate federal police commander, accompanied by other top DSI and police officers, made her arrest known to the media.
Ms. Thitiporn is accused of luring investors to make investments in Dr. Boon with the promise of higher profits. However, neither did they receive any earnings or were their capital investments returned to them. There are 605 known victims so far, according to authorities, and more than 16 billion ringgit is alleged to have been caused by the claims.
The DSI took the case over last year and after submitted its statement to the prosecution, which included 342 folders and more than 130, 000 pages of evidence. It recommended that 16 individuals be put in jail for allegedly swindling money from the community. ( continues below )
Thitiporn Chalermrattanapratheep, a believe in the Dr. Boon Vanasin forgery case, is interrogated by Department of Special Investigations. ( Photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan )
Earlier, DSI officials had taken into custody 13 offenders. Kotchaporn Suwannakut, 39, a woman accused of fleeing abroad, along with Dr. Boon, Ms. Thitiporn, and another lady.  ,
Pol Maj Gen Noppasil Poonsawat, assistant commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said that Ms. Thitiporn denied all allegations during questioning.
She maintained that she had been asked by a companion to act as an agent and that she had been invited to make investments with Dr. Boon despite not having personally met him. She received a committee of 13.5 % of the income that investors had invested.
However, according to Pol Maj Gen Noppasil, the money road and other evidence suggested she was connected to the purchase fraud and closely related to Dr. Boon.
DSI soldiers presently knew the whereabouts of Dr. Boon and Ms Kotchaporn, according to Pol Capt Wisanu. The two offenders were hiding in which nations, the lieutenant DSI captain said they would soon be brought to justice.
The 86-year-old practitioner is accused of obtaining large sums of money from foreign investors in Thai and international healthcare companies. Some people thought the assignments were successful due to his personal reputation and that of his SET-listed medical organization. They did not, in the opinion of the DSI.