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SEVEN FIRMS LISTED IN the Stock Exchange of Thailand have been suspected of involvement in the alleged laundering of enormous amounts of ill-gotten money from Cambodia-based scammer networks.

House Committee on Money-Laundering & Drugs Suppression Chair Danuporn Punnakun confirmed today (Oct.30) that seven listed firms have been reportedly suspected of being involved in money-laundering activities of the transnational rogue scammers and that representatives of those firms will be summoned to testify over the issue which has been somewhat put on world agenda.

Danuporn, concurrently a Pheu Thai MP, declined to identify the suspected firms currently listed in the stock market or say how soon their executive officials or representatives will be summoned for testimony before his panel at parliament.

However, some documents pertaining to transnational money-laundering and scammer scams and obtained by the House committee will be shortly forwarded to the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Anti-Money-Laundering Office in coordinated effort to combat such rogue businesses based in Cambodia, according to the House committee chair.

Danuporn said the House panel has been informed of a large number of transnational and domestic transactions of laundered money involving those listed firms, adding that the AMLO will thoroughly investigate such financial scams and eventually bring all relevant suspects to justice.

Meanwhile, de facto Klatham boss Thammanat Prompao and Klatham leader Narumon Pinyosinwat have again failed to testify over the scammer issue for which they had been formally summoned by the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs and National Strategies & Reforms.

Both Thammanat and Narumon, concurrently the deputy prime minister-cum-agriculture & cooperatives minister and education minister respectively, had been allegedly associated with notorious wheeler-dealer Benjamin Mauerberger, also known as Ben Smith, who had been suspected of involvement in the money-laundering and scammer networks in Cambodia and reportedly performed as adviser to senior Cambodian leader Hun Sen.

Besides the South African-born Ben Smith, BIC Group Chair Yim Leak had been allegedly connected with the money-laundering and scammer rackets in the southeastern neighbouring country.

House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs and National Strategies & Reform Chair Rangsiman Rome insisted that Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul promptly take legal action against any suspects who may have been allegedly associated with or involved in the transnational scammers and money launderers regardless of their current, high positions in government.

Several unnamed politicians including a few members of the current Bhumjaithai-led cabinet have been suspected of being connected with or involved in such illegal activities of the scammers who had preyed on many Thai and world victims.

For instance, one MP, only identified with Thai initial “Chor”, allegedly attached to the Klatham and representing a Songkhla constituency, has been suspected among those “grey” Thai politicians to have had clandestine, illegal dealings with “grey” money-laundering Chinese nationals and other rogue elements based in Cambodia.