AFTER court ordered the detention of 18 The iCon Group executives yesterday (Oct. 17) with 17 of them taken straight to prison while the big boss, Mr. Woratphon Waratvorakul, or Boss Paul, was still being questioned by police, it was alleged that more than US247 million, or over 8 billion baht, was transferred out the country by the company’s programmer just an hour before he was rounded up, TV Channel 3’s 3PlusNews said.
Mr. Ekkapop Luengprasert, an adviser to the Interior Minister and founder of Sai Mai Tong Rod (Sai Mai District Must Survive) community Facebook page, said in a post shared at 2.47 a.m.that, “An unusual money trail – over US$247,911,936, worth more than 8,223 million baht, was transferred out just an hour before ‘Coach Lab’ of The iCon was arrested.”
Coach or Boss Lab is the nickname of Mr. Jiravat Saengphakdi, the direct sales company’s programmer, who is among the executives detained for an initial 12-day period.
A Department of Special Investigation (DSI) team raided two places used to store The iCon Group’s data on cloud storage and hold the company’s website data.
The first is a rented building on Ratchada-RamIntra road, Bueng Kum district, and the second a four-storey building in Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani, housing Serverich Co., Ltd which is a company owned by Coach Lab with various servers kept on the second and third floors.
However neighbours told police that Severich employees had moved out some computers, servers and equipment last Sunday. Nevertheless there are still a lot of devices in the building that could provide useful information for the case.
Among the 18 The iCon Group executives ordered arrested and detained are Mr. Yuranant Pamornmontri, or Boss Sam, a veteran actor, Mr. Kan Kantathavorn, or Boss Kan, a famous presenter, and Ms. Pechaya Wattanamontri, or Boss Min, a famous actress.
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The iCon Group executives were taken to prison yesterday, Oct. 17, 2024. Top photo: Naewna, Front Page photo: Amarin TV
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