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Former Bank Accountant Jailed 20 Years For Siphoning 65 Million From Customers' Accounts


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Former bank accountant jailed 20 years for siphoning 65 million from customers' accounts

BANGKOK: -- A former bank accountant was Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail after the Phra Khanong District Court found her guilty of having siphoned Bt65.867 million from four customers’ accounts.

The court found Suparas Pipitthaweewong guilty of collaborating with others to forge documents to transfer money from four bank customers to her accounts for 123 times from October 2006 to July 2007 for Bt65.867 million.

The court initially sentenced her to 492 years in jail but commuted the sentence by half to 246 years. But the law did not a person to be jailed longer than 20 years for document forgery so she was sentenced to serve 20 years in jail and repay the stolen money.

-- The Nation 2008-09-26

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Either the English is getting worse at the Nation, or the country's gone mad. Latter seems to be it. First of all, how can you siphon money from only 4 people 123 times without them noticing? :D And on top of that get 492 years in jail. :o Maybe she should serve her sentence as an anti-hacker instead. :D

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She was sentenced to the offense on each of the occasions, hence the high total.

I think it's better, back home people get enormous penalty discounts for doing additional crimes and being charged with them at the same time. See: 3 'tourists' from South America convicted for over 500 burglaries. The received basically normal sentence for one offense times 1.5...

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Former bank accountant jailed 20 years for siphoning 65 million from customers' accounts

BANGKOK: -- A former bank accountant was Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail after the Phra Khanong District Court found her guilty of having siphoned Bt65.867 million from four customers’ accounts.

The court found Suparas Pipitthaweewong guilty of collaborating with others to forge documents to transfer money from four bank customers to her accounts for 123 times from October 2006 to July 2007 for Bt65.867 million.

The court initially sentenced her to 492 years in jail but commuted the sentence by half to 246 years. But the law did not a person to be jailed longer than 20 years for document forgery so she was sentenced to serve 20 years in jail and repay the stolen money.

-- The Nation 2008-09-26

Reminds of a similar case about 5 years ago, where the guy stole 80k from the tollways booth and got 40 years, such was the harshness of the sentence one wonders who was really the criminal? On the current matter one can only hope that Toxin and company get a similar sentence after all I am sure they have pilffered alot more. :o

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Reminds of a similar case about 5 years ago, where the guy stole 80k from the tollways booth and got 40 years, such was the harshness of the sentence one wonders who was really the criminal? On the current matter one can only hope that Toxin and company get a similar sentence after all I am sure they have pilffered alot more. :o

Dream on.

Podgy only got 3, and was allowed out of the country.

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She was sentenced to the offense on each of the occasions, hence the high total.

Have they never heard of serving sentences "concurrently"??

Does anyone know which bank she worked for.

It is "conveniently" left out of the report. :o

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Former bank accountant jailed 20 years for siphoning 65 million from customers' accounts

BANGKOK: -- A former bank accountant was Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail after the Phra Khanong District Court found her guilty of having siphoned Bt65.867 million from four customers’ accounts.

The court found Suparas Pipitthaweewong guilty of collaborating with others to forge documents to transfer money from four bank customers to her accounts for 123 times from October 2006 to July 2007 for Bt65.867 million.

The court initially sentenced her to 492 years in jail but commuted the sentence by half to 246 years. But the law did not a person to be jailed longer than 20 years for document forgery so she was sentenced to serve 20 years in jail and repay the stolen money.

-- The Nation 2008-09-26

All she needs to do is appeal, get bail for a 500,000 baht or so and then flee overseas. The law is such a joke here.

Thaksin has shown the way for all criminals to follow.

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So in 10 just months she managed to transfer 65 million baht into her account and the 4 account holders didn't realize and NO-ONE from her branch or head office noticed !!!

What about her fellow collaborators? Surely they are as equally guilty?

Does anyone know the name of the bank so I can avoid them.

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They could have been corporate accounts.

She probably did it just for fun in between internal audits so the companies had no idea some money was missing, if she bolted in time she could have been living the rest of her life somewhere far far away in another tropical paradise.

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