A Thai woman accused of swindling more than 50 women out of thousands of baht with promises of well-paid jobs at massage spas overseas was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday night after being deported from South Korea.
Police then received court permission for an initial period of detention.
Methiya Jaenprachakorn, 25, who was wanted under an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court, reportedly confessed to police that she and some friends were duped in the same manner in 2012 - so she decided to do the same to others.
Pol Colonel Kornchai Khlaikhlueng, commander of the Anti-Human Trafficking Division, presented Methiya at a press conference yesterday.
She allegedly duped people on social media last year after telling them they would be sent for work - to Canada, Germany, South Korea and elsewhere - and charging them commission fees ranging from Bt10,000 to Bt30,000 per head, depending on the destination.
Once she received the money she disappeared.
Kornchai said police would now search for her accomplices. Methiya was wanted for four similar fraud cases and fled to South Korea, he said.
The authorities contacted their South Korean counterparts and asked them to arrest and deport her. (The Nation)
