DSI and Highway Police Apprehended the Offender in Connection with Mr. Supachai, a Former Executive of the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative Limited, for Money Laundering

DSI and Highway Police Apprehended the Offender in Connection with Mr. Supachai, a Former Executive of the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative Limited, for Money Laundering

On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at approximately 06.30 a.m., the Surveillance and Intelligence Center, in cooperation with Highway Police of the Highway Police Station 4, Subdivision 2, Highway Police Division, apprehended Mr. Kittitouch (surname withheld), a suspect pursuant to Criminal Court arrest warrant no. 3126/2568, dated May 28, 2025. The suspect was charged of jointly committing money laundering, as stated in the Anti-Money Laundering Act, B.E. 2542 (1999), and was apprehended at the side of the highway no. 4 (Phet Kasem), in Tha Sae District, Chumphon Province. The arresting team informed the suspect of charges and rights under the Criminal Procedure Code, as well as the requirement to continuously record video and audio in the arresting and detention process until the suspect is being transferred to the special case inquiry officials, according to the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act, B.E. 2565 (2022). Upon the acknowledgement, the suspect was transferred to the special case inquiry officials for further legal proceedings.

          The aforementioned case is Special Case no. 68/2558, handled by the Bureau of Criminal Money Laundering. Mr. Kittitouch, a suspect, colluded with Mr. Supachai, a former chief executive officer of the Klongchan Credit Union Cooperative Limited and the key perpetrator in the nation’s largest public fraud and corruption case, who had already been sentenced by the Supreme Court to 20 years in prison and ordered to compensate over 16 billion baht to the victims.

          The suspect committed the crime by deceiving the members and the public into believing that the cooperative’s operations were stable, in order to raise funds, as well as inducing the members to increase their share capital and mobilizing deposit from the members who hoped for high returns from depositing money into the cooperative’s bank account. Afterwards, Mr. Supachai and accomplices would continuously withdraw the money from the cooperative’s bank account by cash and cheque, in great amounts, with malicious intent. Such action caused the cooperative to unable to pay dividends; moreover, the members cannot withdraw the money in their own bank accounts.

          The operation to track down and apprehend the offenders pursuant to the special case arrest warrant is according to the directives of Police Major Yutthana Praedam, Director General of the Department of Special Investigation, and Police Major Jatupol Bongkochmas, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Special Investigation, who assigned the Surveillance and Intelligence Center, an agency under the Director General’s direct command, to arrange the operation team to track down and apprehend the offenders pursuant to the warrant, in order to bring the alleged offenders who remain at large to justice.