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Ex-SCB manager ordered to repay Bt20m stolen from customer

Ex-SCB manager ordered to repay Bt20m stolen from customer

THE COURT of Appeals yesterday upheld a guilty verdict in a civil case against a former manager of a Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) branch who has been convicted of stealing funds from an ailing woman’s bank account.

The defendant, Thanomsak Chalitangkool, was ordered to repay Bt20 million to the 63-year-old plaintiff, Uamboon Jansama. 
The sum is subject to 7.5-per-cent interest, which will be calculated starting from 2012, the year in which the money was found to be missing from Uamboon’s bank account.
The Court of Appeals upheld the conviction and punishment meted out by a lower court. 
Battling diabetes and cancer, Uamboon has said she needed the money for medical treatment. 
Her lawyer Wanchai Srisantitham said Uamboon had dropped her complaint against SCB because it had already provided her with a financial remedy. 
“Uamboon earned more than Bt100 million in 2007 when she sold a plot of land in the Sukhumvit area. Because she fell ill and was hospitalised then, she entrusted Thanomsak to deposit money into her bank account,” Wanchai said. “But she found in 2012 that her money had gone missing.” 
The lawyer said his client was also in the process of pursuing criminal proceedings against Thanomsak.
Wanchai said he had believed that Thanomsak had changed his name to Woraset Panupongsin.
According to Wanchai, SCB lodged a criminal case against Thanomsak and the Supreme Court sentenced him to a jail term of three years and six months. 
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