News Forum - Army man rents 12 luxury cars, then sells them to used car dealers

[Thaiger]

A former army sergeant came up with a creative – and illegal – way to pay off some debt. He allegedly rented 12 luxury cars and then forged paperwork in order to sell the borrowed vehicle to car dealers. The sergeant has now been arrested by the Crime Suppression Division yesterday and faces charges of fraud, counterfeiting, and using counterfeit official documents. The man had managed to rent 12 high-end automobiles with a combined value of about 76 million baht and then work with partners to sell the vehicle to various used car dealers. The CSD has already spoken to […]

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[anarchofarmer]

And he didn't think that he'd get caught?? Says so much about the Thai "education system" and the military mind!!!!

[butterfly]

indeed, very creative 

[DesperateOldHand]

1 minute ago, butterfly said:

indeed, very creative 

Yep.

And......because they can.

[Guest1]

The commissioner suggested that some of the luxury cars may have already been sold on the black market.

Black market? For a car, they did not know it was stolen?

They are now investigating whether any of the car dealers who purchased the luxury rental vehicles from the man were complicit in the crime or had any idea that the documents were faked and that he did not own the cars he was selling.

Or do they KNOW they were complicit but now still looking into/for manila envelope evidence, that the car dealers are innocent victims here?

[palooka]

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

way to pay off some debt

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

with a combined value of about 76 million baht

Now that is some debt even by Thai standards.

[KaptainRob]

9 minutes ago, Guest1 said:

Black market? For a car, they did not know it was stolen?

There's good money to be made by shipping exotic (stolen) cars abroad, some for parting out, most for re-birthing.

[Guest1]

1 hour ago, KaptainRob said:

There's good money to be made by shipping exotic (stolen) cars abroad, some for parting out, most for re-birthing.

I know that, but if they didn't know, it was stolen?  ;-)

[Pompies]

I suppose that Dear Leader will claim credit for his ruthless crackdown on corruption! 

[Manu]

2 hours ago, butterfly said:

indeed, very creative 

Not creative enough though: he got caught.

[Bluesofa]

48 minutes ago, Pompies said:

I suppose that Dear Leader will claim credit for his ruthless crackdown on corruption! 

I was expecting the car thief would join the government, like heroin dealers do.

[Benroon]

On 7/31/2022 at 4:59 PM, anarchofarmer said:

And he didn't think that he'd get caught?? Says so much about the Thai "education system" and the military mind!!!!

Bizarre jump there in order to bash the Thais - so hang on given there are god knows how many US and U.K. criminals, does this, according to your analogy, mean Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford are shite ? 

[Benroon]

But back to the point this crime is a very old one, try hiring a car near any border and you’ll be up against it for this very reason. 

Having said that numerous U.K. top end cars find their way to Dubai, Lagos, it’s a global thing.