Six arrested in Phuket loan shark crackdown

Officers have arrested six suspects in a loan shark crackdown in Chalong.

At 6.30am yesterday morning, officers raided a house in Chalong after the the Phuket Provincial Court has issued 21 arrest warrants for six suspects over offences relating to the Excessive Interest Rate Prohibition Act. They were…

• 28 year old Somkiet Boonpeng from Chanthaburi in 5 arrest warrants.
• 23 year old Chairat Charnapon from Trat with 4 arrest warrants.
• 22 year old Tanakorn Srisuk from Samut Prakan with 2 arrest warrants.
• 23 year old Komsan Prayatsap from Pathum Thani with 4 arrest warrants.
• 29 year old Teerapon Suwannarat from Bangkok with 2 arrest warrants.
• 20 year old Nipon Nuanwara from Chathaburi with 4 arrest warrants.

Nipon has also been charged with illegal possession of Category 5 Drugs as he was found with marijuana during the raid.