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Thai YouTuber accused of swindling fans of $78m nabbed in Riau
The Straits Times
|November 02, 2024
A once-aspiring K-pop star who is wanted in Thailand for fraud was, in the end, apparently done in by her singing: She was unmasked and arrested after she failed to sing Indonesia's national anthem.
Natthamon Khongchak, 31, a YouTube content creator known by her nickname "Nutty", was arrested in Indonesia on Oct 18 and extradited with her mother, Thaniya, to Thailand on Oct 25, according to media reports in Indonesia.
Investigators in Indonesia said she tried to pass herself off as Indonesian in Dumai city, in Riau province, on Sumatra Island.
But immigration agents there noticed her Thai accent and asked her to sing Indonesia's national anthem, according to a report in the South China Morning Post. When she could not, she and her mother were arrested for illegal entry.
Natthamon, her mother and her secretary, Nichaphat Rattanukrom, had been on the run since July 2023.
They fled Thailand, headed to Kuala Lumpur, and then boarded a boat that took them to Indonesia.
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