{"id":10672,"date":"2019-11-02T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/02\/thai-woman-duped-investors-out-of-millions-in-ponzi-scheme-say-police"},"modified":"2019-11-02T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:01:48","slug":"thai-woman-duped-investors-out-of-millions-in-ponzi-scheme-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10672","title":{"rendered":"Thai woman duped investors out of millions in Ponzi scheme, say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mae Manee, 28, on the run after being accused of fraud involving a fake gold shop and the offer of 93% return to investors<\/p>\n<p>A woman is on the run from Thai police after being accused of scamming nearly 3,000 people out of a total of 861 million baht (US28.3m), and setting up a fake gold shop to fool her alleged victims about her assets.<\/p>\n<p>Wantanee Tippaveth, 28, known as Mae Manee, is accused of fraud and other financial crimes after allegedly setting up a Ponzi scheme offering 93% profit to a total of 2,977 investors. Her boyfriend Metee Chinpa, 20, has also been charged with financial misdemeanours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/02\/thai-woman-duped-investors-out-of-millions-in-ponzi-scheme-say-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mae Manee, 28, on the run after being accused of fraud involving a fake gold shop and the offer of 93% return to investorsA woman is on the run from Thai police after being accused of scamming nearly 3,000 people out of a total of 861 million baht (US2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10672\/revisions\/10673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}