Bangkok: Police have arrested a daughter of veteran politician on a charge of faking her death in the 2004 tsunami to escape fraud cases totalling 3 billion baht brought against her and her husband.
Kankanit Angkinand, 48, daughter of Piya Angkinand of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai party, was arrested in Bangkok on Thursday, police said.
Parties in the fraud case filed a complaint to police about three and a half years ago, saying they did not believe she was dead.
Police said Mrs Kankanit, with the help of her husband Charnchai Chinsiri, faked her death in the 2004 tsunami. He identified a body found on a beach in Ranong province as being his wife.
Mr Charnchai then filed claims on life insurance policies held with several companies and had already been paid millions of baht, police said.
Police said Mrs Kankanit is not dead. She had changed her first name and last name several times and travelled to China to remove a birthmark on her cheek to hide her identity.
The arrested woman's fingerprints matched Mrs Kankanit's prints found on the house registration file, they said.
Her 47-year-old husband was also arrested as an accomplice.
Mrs Kankanit is a defendant in 35 cases and Mr Charnchai in 28 cases, police said.
The two refused to give any statements to police.
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