泰国商人普拉西旅游投资诈骗311人：曼谷刑事法院判处1244年监禁
据 VnExpress 与泰国媒体报道，泰国曼谷刑事法院11月11日对一宗旅游投资诈骗案作出判决：曾自称「泰国马云」的商人普拉西·杰奥科克（Prasit Jeawkok）以旅游套餐投资为名诈骗311人，被判处合计1244年监禁。
检方指控，普拉西及其关联公司推出多种不同价位的旅游套餐，以每年20%的高额回报为诱饵，吸引民众购买套餐或投资入股，检方认定该项目实为金字塔式投资骗局。法院认定普拉西犯有311项罪行，每项判处8年监禁，合计2488年；因他在审理期间改为认罪、对案件审理有帮助，法院将刑期减半，最终判处1244年。
根据泰国法律，本案实际执行的刑期最高为20年。但法院同时裁定，这一刑期要在他此前7起刑事案件的刑期执行完毕后接续执行。此外，法院责令普拉西与3家涉案公司共同向311名受害者退还款项，并按年利率7.5%支付利息。另一名被告基迪萨（Kittisak Yennanont）因证据不足被判无罪。
（来源：VnExpress）
Thai Businessman Prasit Jeawkok Sentenced to 1,244 Years for Defrauding 311 People in Tour-Package Scam
A Bangkok court sentenced Thai businessman Prasit Jeawkok, who once styled himself "Thailand's Jack Ma," to a combined 1,244 years in prison on November 11 for defrauding 311 people through a tour-package investment scheme, VnExpress and Thai media reported.
Prosecutors said Prasit and his affiliated companies sold tour packages at various price points, luring buyers with promised annual returns of 20 percent, in what prosecutors described as a pyramid-style investment scheme. The court found him guilty on 311 counts, each carrying eight years, for a total of 2,488 years. Because he changed his plea to guilty during the trial and assisted the proceedings, the court halved the term to 1,244 years.
Under Thai law, the time he will actually serve in this case is capped at 20 years. The court ruled, however, that this term is to run consecutively after the sentences in his seven earlier criminal cases. The court also ordered Prasit and three companies involved to jointly repay the 311 victims with interest at 7.5 percent per year. A co-defendant, Kittisak Yennanont, was acquitted for insufficient evidence.
(Source: VnExpress)
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