Phuket villa manager caught faking robbery to hide lost deposits

A 21 year old luxury villa manager in Kamala Beach, Phuket, was apprehended for fabricating an assault and theft incident after failing to account for customers’ deposits.

The manager, Chananchida Harnkamjorn, confessed to concocting a story about being attacked and robbed of 100,000 baht to cover up her misuse of the funds.

The incident, initially reported to police on Monday at 3pm, was unravelled by the meticulous investigation of the Kamala Police Station, led by Colonel Somsak Thongkliang. The police were tipped off by inconsistencies between the reported crime and physical evidence.

Chananchida’s scheme came to light when she admitted to police that she had invested her customers’ villa deposits in foreign currency trading and lost the money. In a desperate attempt to deceive her employer, she claimed to have been attacked by an assailant who…