Sugar fraud suspect arrested
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Crime Suppression Division officers arrested a woman for her role in an alleged Bt98 million sugar business fraud that prayed on an Indonesian businessman, just 15 days before the case's statute of limitation expired.
The suspect, Tossaporn Jianpattanakhom, 64, was arrested on Wednesday evening in Bangkok’s Huai Kwang district and faces the charges of fraud, forging documents and using fake documents to dupe others.
The alleged fraud occurred between January 25 and August 15, 2005, when she and eight others told the Indonesian sugar importer they had secured the Thai government’s quota to sell 37,000 tonnes of refined sugar to him.
The gang allegedly defrauded many other businesspeople and some of those cases are still before the courts.
