AMLO freezes Bt300m worth of senator’s assets
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THE Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) has frozen assets totalling about Bt300 million of a former senator, his company and accomplices for alleged embezzlement.
Secretary general of Amlo Seehanat Prayoonrat said that Loei Teachers’ Saving and Credit Cooperative Ltd and its members had filed complaints with his office alleging that Srisuk Rungwisai, a former selected senator, and his firm Tevasitthi Pikanet convinced the cooperative and its members to buy government lottery tickets, plus charity lottery tickets.
Srisuk claimed he got a big concession from the Government Lottery Office (GLO) at a good price.
The cooperative and its members, plus those of certain other cooperatives, believed and allegedly gave him the money to buy the lottery tickets.
However, Seehanart said inquiries showed that Srisuk and his company had not won either contracts or a quota from the GLO to sell the tickets.
Srisuk allegedly could not provide the lottery tickets as promised, Seehanart said. Other cooperatives alleged to have been embezzled by Srisuk included Loei Saving Cooperative, General Education Teachers Ltd and Wang Sapung Agriculture Cooperative.
Srisuk then made the same promise with other people – that anyone who bought lottery tickets from him could sell them and pocket Bt10 each from the difference. A large number of people were lured to buy the tickets, but Srisuk was allegedly unable to do this.
