A crypto millionaire from Finland has lost more than 5,500 bitcoins due to a scam in Thailand. A famous Thai film actor is accused of having been involved.
As you know, one of the marketing tools aimed at promotion of some products and services presupposes engagement of celebrities, whose reputation and image helps to draw public’s attention to this or that product.
While the crypto market is continuing its rapid growth and development, more and more celebrities are joining the rows of crypto supporters and role models. Nevertheless, for a famous Thai actor his work with cryptos resulted into police intervention.
As it has been informed by the Thai media, Jiratpisit Jaravijit, also known as Boom, was arrested after allegations of his involvement in a money laundering scheme with Bitcoin. As a result of such a scam, a Finnish man lost $34 million.
In June 2017, the 22-year-old crypto millionaire from Finland became a victim of a scam scheme in which the actor and some other intruders took part. The scammer convinced their victim to send a certain amount of money in Bitcoin to a number of addresses that were linked to the companies within the business venture.
The money should be allocated for investments into several Thai stocks, a casino in Macau as well as a new cryptocurrency called Dragon Coin – a crypto coin used in gaming platforms. The group of intruders explained to their victim that after issuance, the Dragon Coin can be used to play at the casino.
They also took the Finnish man to a casino in Macau in order to show him that their plan was absolutely legitimate. For the victim, the scheme seemed to be rather reliable and he decided to invest into the deal. As a result, he transferred 5,564 Bitcoins to the group and began waiting for good returns.
Nevertheless, some months later when he saw no returns, he took a decision to file a complaint to Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division. He did it in January together with his local business partner who thought that the whole scheme was a scam.
After the investigations held by the Crime Suppression Division, it was alleged that the group of scammers hadn’t made any investments for their victim. Instead of fulfilling their obligations, they exchanged all the received Bitcoins into Thai baht. As it was investigated, these funds were deposited into seven bank accounts.
At the moment, it is not specified when the Bitcoin assets were sold, nevertheless, it is supposed that fraudsters managed to receive profits of approximately 800 million baht which is nearly $34 million. It’s worth mentioning that the sum of 5,564 Bitcoins, if taken at the price of the previous year’s high of more than $19,000, is equivalent to more than $100,000,000.
The Crime Suppression Division has also found out that the actor’s sibling Prinya Jaravijit was the head of the scheme. Nevertheless, earlier, he has managed to leave the country for the U.S. At the current moment, the authorities are working on establishing collaboration with the U.S. authorities to track him down.
Let us also mention that cryptocurrencies have recently appeared in another story. As it has been reported by CoinSpeaker, the British police found a crypto wallet with 295 Bitcoins while conducting the raid at the house of a criminal who was charged for cultivation of cannabis and money laundering.
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