Manop Cherngchai, Udom
Kongsathit, and Somthrong Srinok, along with a 17-year-old (not shown) have
been arrested on loan sharking charges.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Four members of a Chantaburi-based loan-sharking ring
were arrested after allegedly intimidating a businesswoman forced to pay
10,000 baht interest a day.
Manop Cherngchai, 43, Udom Kongsathit, 27, Somthrong Srinok, 24, and a
17-year-old were apprehended at Raviporn Village on Soi Nernplabwan Oct. 25.
Police confiscated 28,100 baht, a pen gun and 48 bullets. A cache of
marijuana also was recovered.
The arrest came after Thonapath Jansawang, 32, filed a complaint with police
that Manop’s accomplices had threatened her, stole her property and sat
outside her shop to intimidate her daily after she fell behind on the 5
percent per day payments on her 200,000 baht loan. She said she’d kept up
for two months, but recently had defaulted.
Police alleged Manop, a Chantaburi native, and his crew are part of the Pan
loan-sharking ring believed to be one of the largest on the Eastern
Seaboard.
