Police have successfully sought warrants for the arrest of a man and a woman who allegedly took 80 million baht stolen from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), which lost altogether 1.6 billion baht through embezzlement over the past two years.
Pol Col Nos Sawetlek, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), said on Tuesday that the additional warrants targeted Janjira Sopradit and Sompong Sahaporn-udomkarn. They were charged with laundering money as they allegedly opened bank accounts to receive 84 million baht stolen from KMITL last year.
Pol Col Nos said Ms Janjira had obtained 40 million baht and Mr Sompong 44 million and police also knew to whom both suspects had later transferred money afterwards.
The pair are related to the suspects identified earlier. Ms Janjira is a daughter of Sombat Sopradit and Mr Sompong is the father of Jariwat Sahaporn-udomkarn.
Mrs Sombat and Mr Jariwat earlier faced arrest warrants in the same case. Mr Jariwat was already in police custody. Both also allegedly received stolen money from KMITL.
Other suspects are Amporn Noisamrit, the 56-year-old financial director of KMITL, Songklod Sriprasong, 40, the former Bank of Ayudhya branch manager who forged bank accounts so it seemed the stolen money still existed, and alleged money receivers Poonsak Boonsawat and Kittisak Matthujad.
Mr Kittisak and Mrs Sombat remained at large.