Investigating the reasons for the suicide of a Thai woman, the Thai police arrested a Russian citizen providing services for trading on the foreign exchange market.
A Russian national who ran a company that provided customers with intermediary services for trading on the foreign exchange market has been arrested in Pattaya for payment services without authorisation. Police turned their attention to the Russian man’s company while investigating the reasons behind the suicide of a Thai woman, the Khaosod newspaper reported.
Relatives of Navaporn, a Thai woman who committed suicide in 2022, told investigators that the reason for the suicide was due to massive losses. The woman lost over 20 million baht on foreign exchange trading through the suspect’s company.
When the suspect company’s financial flows were checked, it was found that its turnover exceeded 100 billion baht in three years. The Chonburi Provincial Criminal Court immediately issued an arrest and search warrant for the suspects.
On the fourth of April, officers of the Economic Crimes Unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation went to the office and homes of a suspect. They detained a Russian citizen, 40-year-old Alexei Wegman, based on an arrest warrant issued by the Provincial Criminal Court.
The Russian is charged with ‘jointly operating a supervised payment services business, which is a service of accepting payments by electronic means without authorisation’.
Following the arrest, police officers searched two houses owned by the suspect in Chonburi province. During the search, documents related to the company were seized. The 22 items included seven laptops, three phones, six electronic cards, 14 bank accounts, 4 chequebooks, and 9 Secure Pass/Tokens.
Alexei Wegman is suspected of running a company that received customer funds and provided intermediary services for forex currency trading. Clients registered on the company’s website and participated in currency trading, which caused significant damage and resulted in massive amounts owed by the clients.
The suspected Russian national denies the charges.
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