Thread: Thai government returns over 300 million baht to fraud victims in China

BANGKOK, 6 June 2019 (NNT) - Preecha Charoensahayanon, acting secretary general of the Anti-Money Laundering Commission, said Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam and AMLC Chairman Chaiya Siri-ampholkul have left for China to return the money which had been illegally collected from Chinese fraud victims.


A high-level Chinese security official received a sum of 356 million baht in a bank savings account which was to be returned to a total of 33,928 victims in China. The Chinese authorities thanked the Thai authorities for having returned the money to foreign fraud victims for the first time.


The Thai and Chinese authorities have discussed close cooperation in effort to crack down on transnational crimes, prevent and suppress terrorism and raise the confidence in international judicial systems.

National News Bureau Of Thailand

Face saving exercise. They will get double that back by ripping of chinkys without getting caught next time. Thais are playin the long game

Originally Posted by misskit

A high-level Chinese security official received a sum of 356 million baht in a bank savings account which was to be returned to a total of 33,928 victims in China

as long as they lodge a claim to him personally before 31 December 1996. Otherwise, its straight into his personal account, minus the cut to his superiors.

Originally Posted by misskit

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam and AMLC Chairman Chaiya Siri-ampholkul have left for China to return the money

Why on earth do they have to go? Junket!

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

Face saving exercise.

It's not even that. It's an excuse to grease.

And isn't it more common that non-Chinese are the victims of Chinese scams?