Arrest warrants have been issued against 11 suspects, nine of whom including Pichnaree Tantiwit, CEO of dietary supplement business Primaya, have acknowledged charges against them as a result of wildly exaggerated advertisements related to investment schemes on social media.
Pichnaree: Now out on bail
The warrants were issued by Nonthaburi Provincial Court against Ms Pichnaree, alias May Primaya, and her associates on charges including fraud and dissemination of false information in a computer system.
The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) sought the warrants in response to a TikTok video by Ms Pichnaree’s close aide, Ratchanan “Noomnim” Muangprathet, who posted a picture of herself with a luxury car and a caption aimed at persuading people to invest in Primaya’s dietary supplements.
Ms Ratchanan claimed people could earn as much as 15 million baht in three months from investing just 6,000 baht.
CCIB commissioner Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakornbancha said Ms Pichnaree later handed herself over to police along with four of her associates on Thursday.
They said the interrogations took more than eight hours. Ms Pichnaree formally acknowledged the charges but denied culpability.
Initially, Ms Pichnaree and the four others were released on bail with a surety of 100,000 baht each.
Pol Lt Gen Worawat said police also arrested four other associates, one of whom was Ms…
