Police on Thursday, November 24th, arrested two Nigerians and three Thai women for allegedly swindling women seeking foreign husbands out of 50 million baht through an internet romance scam.
According
to Provincial Police Region 4 chief Pol Maj Gen Jatupon Parnraksa, the
two Nigerian men identified as Okwutor Peter, 29, and Jeremiah Ndidi,
27 and their three Thai accomplices were arrested at a Bangkok
condominium where police seized 20 bank books and ATMs with transactions
totalling more than 50 million baht.
They also confiscated 15 mobile
phones, a laptop computer and 50 other valuable items.
The Thai suspects were identified as Jaerati Saisin and Nattacha
Thongbai, both 30, from Rayong and Yasothon, who were married to the
Nigerians. The third woman was a 34-year-old Bangkok native, Ketsara
Marksiri.
Pol Maj Gen Jatupon said police acted on a complaint filed in
Udon Thani province last month by the gang’s latest victim who was a
45-year-old rubber plantation owner who had been swindled out of
500,000 baht.
The Nigerians claimed to be
good-looking, white and well-to-do. They developed close ties with women
seeking rich foreign husbands via Facebook or online chat programmes,
and proposed marriage. They would then claim that they were detained by airport and customs
authorities for bringing in cash that was more than the legal limit, and
asked the victims to transfer money to them to pay for tax on the cash.
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