DSI Informed Charges to 7 Suspects and Issued Arrest Warrants to 5 Suspects for the Investment Fraud through Third Credit Application with the Damages at 33 Million Baht

DSI Informed Charges to 7 Suspects and Issued Arrest Warrants to 5 Suspects for the Investment Fraud through Third Credit Application with the Damages at 33 Million Baht

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) had been investigating the case where a company advertised and invited the general public to jointly invest by lending money through Third Credit application, offering higher interest rate than the legal rate offered by the financial institutions. This behavior is considered as joint borrowing regarded as public fraud, joint public fraud, and a violation of the Computer-Related Crime Act, B.E. 2550 (2007), in Special Case no. 14/2566.

Recently, on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Police Lieutenant Colonel Anon Untrijan, Director of the Illegal Financial Business Bureau, revealed that Miss Prim Sariya, Head of the Illegal Financial Business Crime Division 2, in her capacity as the Head of the inquiry team, reported that the team decided to issue summonses for 12 suspects to acknowledge the charges. So far, 7 of them have already turned themselves in. Subsequently, the special case inquiry team filed charges against the 7 suspects for “joint borrowing regarded as public fraud, joint public fraud” and “joint bringing into a computer system a distorted, falsified (in whole or in part), or false computer data, in a manner which likely cause damages to the public,” under the Emergency Decree on Borrowings which are regarded as Public Cheating and Fraud, B.E. 2527 (1984), and its amendments, the Criminal Code, and the Computer-Related Crime Act, B.E. 2550 (2007), and its amendments. For the other 5 suspects, who failed to appear before the authorities as scheduled and provided no reasonable excuses, the special case inquiry team will request jurisdiction to issue arrest warrants accordingly.

This case involves 203 victims with estimated damages amounting to 33,000,000 Baht. The special case inquiry team expects that the investigation report could be submitted to the public prosecutor by September.

Thus, the swift, continuous, and fair investigation on the special case is the key policy of Police Major Yutthana Praedam, Director-General of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), which aims to build confidence in special case investigations, as well as to foster credibility and public trust in the prevention, suppression, and investigation of cases under the agency’s responsibility, in order to ensure sustainable organizational management in accordance with the principles of good governance.