Bangkok Bank Employee Arrested for Inflating Credit Card Limit
A Bangkok Bank senior credit officer was arrested at Nong Khai railway station for fraudulently raising his own credit card limit from 40,000 to 70,000 baht and spending the excess on personal expenses.
On August 6, 2026, immigration and railway checkpoint officers at Nong Khai jointly arrested 32-year-old Panuvatn from Bangkok, who was wanted under a Bangkok South Criminal Court warrant for computer data tampering and theft from his employer. The suspect arrived by train at Nong Khai station and was identified when submitting his documents for departure; he was then detained and handed over to Thung Mahamaek Police for further investigation.
Investigators determined that Panuvatn worked as a senior credit card approval officer at a major Bangkok bank headquarters. Using his authority to approve temporary credit limits and issue new cards, he altered his own credit card limit from the approved 40,000 baht to 70,000 baht and spent the difference on personal expenses. When the bank's head office discovered the fraud, it filed a complaint and obtained an arrest warrant on July 27, 2026.
