Famous Thai actress Savika Chaiyadej was among 19 people arrested yesterday for allegedly defrauding people of money via a ponzi scheme.
Thailand’s Criminal Court denied Sawika, fearing the defendants would flee if they were granted temporary release.
Sawika is accused of committing fraud under the Computer Crimes Act for their involvement in a ponzi scheme. The scam persuades people to invest their money in foreign exchange through the website forex-3d.com, claiming that they will make 60-80% profit on their investments.
However, once people invested, they didn’t get any profits in return as promised. According to the DSI, around 14,000 people were duped into the scam, investing an estimated 1.9 billion baht in total.
In October 2019, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) began investigating Forex-3D after receiving a complaint from an investor who claimed Forex-3D was a scam. A number of well-known celebrities in Thailand were summoned to testify alongside the founder and CEO of Forex-3D Apirak Kotthi.
Sawika began advertising Forex-3D in January 2020. She was a good friend of Tangmo, the famous Thai actress who drowned in the Chao Phraya river in February.
—————-
Thai netizens are curious as to why the Office of the Thai PM has spent so much money on advertisements after a recent poll by Nielsen ranked it in 13th place for the most money spent on advertising in…
