It was the ultimate in drawing attention to yourself. A Cambodian man was annoying the queue at a Kasikorn ATM near the border at Rong Kleua market in Aranyaprathet.
He had been withdrawing and transferring money for a very long time using dozens of ATM cards. So long in fact that people in the queue got suspicious and called the Klong Leuk police.
They arrived and found Kaew Heng, aged about 30, with 126 ATM cards only six of which were in his name. They belonged to accounts for Kasikorn, SCB and Bangkok Bank.
The police found 3,339,000 baht in Thai cash in the man’s bag. In addition they found six Kasikorn bankbooks and three from SCB showing transactions amounting to a million baht a day.
Not surprisingly their suspicions were aroused and Heng was taken in for questioning.
He told police it was all legitimate – he was pressing the ATM for Cambodian workers in Thailand. He claimed that he was a currency trader in Poi Pet on the Cambodian side. His passport was all in order.
Police contacted colleagues in Bang Plee east of Bangkok because they believed that Heng was related to a criminal arrested there in January for theft and fencing stolen goods.
But due to the fact that no solid evidence could be obtained in time from the Bang Plee police they were obliged to release the suspect.
However, he wasn’t getting off that lightly – the police confiscated all the money, the bank books and most of the ATM cards.
Next stop was the three banks to have the cards cancelled.
Investigations continue.
I bet they do !!
(Source:Thai Rath)