Chinese Tourist, 28, Reports Losing More Than 400,000 Baht to Fellow Nationals in Thailand; Bangkok Police Are Investigating
A 28-year-old Chinese tourist, Meng Linghui, went to Huai Khwang Police Station in Bangkok with her younger brother at 11 p.m. on November 11 and reported that several Chinese men had defrauded her of more than 400,000 baht during her holiday in Thailand, Thai media reported. Police said the complaint had been accepted and that a Chinese man and others were under investigation. The allegations are the complainant's account and have not been tested in court; GSM presents them here as reported by Thai media.
Meng arrived in Thailand in late October for a holiday and met the men through the Xiaohongshu app. They first met her in Bangkok's Din Daeng area, took her to Soi Nana, and proposed exchanging Chinese yuan for close to 200,000 baht in Thai cash. Later they took her to the Central Rama 9 mall in Bangkok and the Central Pattaya mall in Chon Buri, claimed there were banking-system problems, and had her advance money for mobile phones and further cash exchanges.
Meng said that after she returned to Bangkok and pressed for repayment she was repeatedly stalled, and that she later found her bank account in China had been frozen because money said to have come from other victims had been transferred into it. She put her total loss at more than 400,000 baht. According to Thai media, one man involved was brought in for questioning and denied the allegations, saying he had recently been injured and needed a wheelchair. Police asked Meng to submit further evidence so they can compile the case file and seek arrest warrants.
(Source: Daily News, Thailand)
Source: Daily News (Thailand
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Photo: 图：泰国曼谷辉煌区街景（CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons）。 / Photo: A street in Huai Khwang district, Bangkok, Thailand (CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
