Police consider more charges in romantic fraud case 

Pol Colonel Suwat Saengnoom, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division, said yesterday that if more victims file complaints with police against Jariyaporn Buayai, the CSD may consider invoking the Anti-Money Laundering Act against her.
Jariyaporn was arrested on Thursday night in Samut Sakhon. Some 14 men had filed complaints with the CSD against Jariyaporn for defrauding them of Bt100,000 to Bt500,000 each.
Suwat said the CSD had so far charged Jariyaporn with defrauding others by disguising herself as another person.
Suwat said police had already interrogated four victims and were yet to question nine others.
Information from complainants may also help police decide whether to charge the suspect under the anti-money laundering law if they deem her actions to be the repeated defrauding of multiple victims. If so, the Anti-Money Laundering Office would be asked to check Jariyaporn’s transactions, Suwat added.
Meanwhile, Thanakrit Worathanatchakul, a senior public prosecutor attached to the Office of the Attorney-General, yesterday advised alleged victims in the romantic defrauding case to file civil lawsuits against the woman.
Thanakrit said the statute of limitations of the cases would be only three months and each victim would have to be dealt with separately as an individual case. 
He said the three-month legal status of the case was counted from the day each victim knew that he had been deceived.
Thanakrit said it was clear from the legal facts of the case that Jariyaporn violated Article 341 of the Criminal Code by deceiving others, because no woman would legitimately get married so many times in such a short period.
Central Investigation Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Thitirat Nongharnpitak said Jariyaporn has repeatedly used the same trick on different men since 2011, luring them to fall in love, marrying 
them and making off with their dowries.
Thanakrit said that a similar case happened in Phra Khanong area in 2006 when a man deceived a woman to give him cash and valuables with a promise to marry her but then disappeared. 
The attorney-general had decided that the man could be pursued for fraud charges but the case had to be dropped because the statute of limitations had expired, Thanakrit added.
CSD police officers yesterday took Jariyaporn to the Thanyaburin Provincial Court at 10.30am to seek approval of her detention pending further investigation. The police asked the court not to grant her release on bail.
Jariyaporn told reporters at the court that she would be ready to defend herself in court.
She said her parents had nothing to do with what she had done, and she claimed that she contacted police to surrender on her own without being tracked down and arrested as reported.
Police said they would further probe whether Jariyaporn’s elusive parents were in on the scheme with their daughter. They reportedly showed up at all of the woman’s weddings.