Rental car businesswoman files DSI complaint against ‘uniformed people’

Patcharin Yimyaem claimed a previous complaint to police had not yielded progress, which had prompted her to believe the case might involve “uniformed people”.
Patcharin submitted the complaint to DSI head of services Thatchakorn Annopphetch, who would pass it on to chief Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang.
She said her rental car shop had a fleet of 10 cars, two of which were a BMW X1 sedan and a Mercedes-Benz C-class sedan that had been rented to a customer last September for a month.
After failing to return the cars, the unidentified customer renewed the rental contract for another month, but Patcharin said she had become suspicious and checked the cars’ GPS data. As of November 14, the Mercedes-Benz was parked at Bang Bua Thong police station and the BMW in front of a Bang Bua Thong house.
Police then contacted Patcharin on December 4, telling her to appear as the cars’ owner after the customer filed a police complaint claiming the vehicles had been stolen.
She said she later learned that the customer had pawned the cars, prompting her to file police complaints with police in Bang Bua Thong and Sara Buri, but there had been no progress in the case.
She said wanted the DSI to investigate the case, which she suspected involved a criminal gang backed by “uniformed people” as many rental car business owners had experienced similar problems but not stepped forward because they feared “influential figures”.
However, she added that if the customer returned the cars, she would drop the complaints.