The charges covered aiding or abetting wrongdoers to commit crime and taking assets or other benefits to accommodate a wrongdoing, or help prevent the wrongdoer getting caught.
Akarakit had already been charged with laundering money for alleged Laotian drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpa and had been released on bail on condition that he didn’t leave the country without court permission.
His actress wife Napapa “Patt” Tantrakul was on Monday was charged with conspiracy to launder money over the money he wired to her and was released on bail.