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Ex-model nabbed for online investment fraud

About B100 million lost by victims who fell for promise of ‘guaranteed’ 100% returns

Police arrest fraud suspect Wetika Jaija in San Sai district of Chiang Mai on Thursday. (Photo supplied)

Police have arrested a former model who they say orchestrated an online investment scam, extorting over 100 million baht from victims.

Wetika Jaija, 30, was arrested at a residence in San Sai district of Chiang Mai, said Pol Maj Gen Phuthidej Boonkraphue, head of the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD). 

She was charged with obtaining loans amounting to public cheating, fraud and entering false computer data into a computer system.

Pol Maj Gen Phuthidej said Ms Wetika had lured victims into investing in a…

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