Police said the Nigeria-based scammer told her that he had got a huge inheritance and wanted to transfer the money to Thailand. He asked for Chamanan’s help while deceiving her into making several money transfers from her company’s bank accounts. As a chief financial officer of a Thai company, Chamanan had access to funds and ended up transferring more than 6.2 billion baht to different bank accounts in 17 countries.
Som is among 30 or so people wanted for high-profile scams. Arrest warrants have been issued for all of them on charges of transnational crime, money laundering, criminal rackets, embezzling, violating the Computer Crime Act, etc.
