Suicidal teacher arrested for swindling students of over 2 million baht

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday arrested a 43 year old fraudster who tried to commit suicide. The suspect, reportedly a teacher from a high school in the Prawet district of Bangkok, swindled over 2 million baht from 40 students by luring them into buying tour packages to Japan.

The arrest came after one victim shared the issue on Twitter. The victim revealed that a teacher, identified as Charat Phanyim, invited students to join a trip to Japan which cost 50,000 baht each. He assured the students that his family owned a travel agency, and everything would be well prepared.

On the day of the trip, Charat asked everyone to meet at Suvarnabhumi Airport three hours before the flight. However, he disappeared when they arrived at the airport, leaving the students and their parents stranded.

They then checked with the airline and discovered that the scheduled flight was…