A GLAM YouTuber who fled Thailand after "scamming" victims out of £47 million was arrested following a national anthem cock up. Natthamon Khongchak, 32, from Thailand, was busted for fraud when immigration officials in Indonesia noticed her accent was off and she couldn't sing the country's national anthem. Khongchak, also known as Nutty, attempted to obtain citizenship in Indonesia after she posed as a foreign exchange trader.
The investment scheme had collapsed when thousands of suspected victims filed complaints in Bangkok - and one claimed she lost thousands that she would have used to send her child to university. Khongchak fled to Kuala Lumpur with her secretary Nichapat Ratananukrom before she took a boat to a remote Indonesian island, where her mother later joined her. Earlier this month, Khongchak allegedly applied for an Indonesian passport - which would have allowed her to travel internationally - when immigration officials became suspicious of her accent.
READ MORE in world They reportedly asked her to sing the national anthem and recite country's constitution but she failed. Cops say she broke down under interrogation and admitted she had entered the country illegally. Further checks with bungling officials in Thailand, who initially allowed her to slip through the net, revealed she was a fugitive wanted for the mass investment scam worth millions.
Police Lieutenant General Thatchai Pitaneelabut, Assistant Commissioner-General of the Royal Thai Police, said: " T.