During the trip, Ms Pasit invited members to join a tour to Japan and said if the trip was successful she would take them to Taiwan and the Maldives later, police said. About 1,000 people gathered at Suvarnabhumi airport on Tuesday night for the promised Japan trip on chartered flights only to realise it never existed. Sin Sae Shogun and people close to her were arrested in Ranong province on the Myanmar border the following day. Many of her clients told reporters that they had been attracted by the Japan tour offer. Police believe the network recruited thousands of members nationwide and cheated people out of tens of millions of baht in total.

Source: Bangkok Post April 16, 2017 08:03 UTC