
Sixteen more people including a celebrity couple will be charged with alleged roles in a Forex Ponzi scheme, according to Prayut Petchkun, deputy director-general of the Department of Special Litigation.
On Thursday, public prosecutors indicted 19 defendants for computer crimes and for allegedly obtaining loans amounting to public cheating and fraud from operating the Forex Ponzi scheme that cheated thousands of victims out of about 2 billion baht. All of them are currently in jail without bail.