Aussie, Thai held over plantation scam
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Police have arrested an Australian and his alleged Thai accomplice for allegedly swindling money out of many foreign investors.
Shaun Michael Albert Maher, 41, and Rossarin Phowichai, 25, were nabbed in Khon Kaen province on Tuesday.
The arrests are related to complaints filed in Phuket province by many foreigners, who say the two suspects had lured them into investing hundreds of thousands of baht in cassava plantations.
“The victims have never received any returns,” Crime Suppression Division’s acting chief Colonel Akaradej Pimonsri said yesterday.
He said that after the scam the suspects had fled from Phuket to Khon Kaen.
