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Pemika faces final judgement in fraud case
Pemika Veerachatraksit talks to reporters at the Criminal Court on March 3, 2007. (Bangkok Post file photo)
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday deliver a decision on an appeal against a fraud conviction by a former psychology student, who got a jail term for swindling a doctor out of more than 8 million baht.
The ruling on the appeal of Pemika Veerachatraksit, 34, will be read in the Criminal Court at 9.30am on Wednesday.
On Sept 25, 2013, the Court of Appeal upheld a four-and-a-half-year jail sentence on Pemika for deceiving Prakitpao Tomchitchong, owner of the renowned Applied Physics tutorial school, into giving her gifts and cash worth 8 million baht while he was suffering mental illness.
Pemika appealed the Appeal Court's decision and submitted a bail request with a 3.2-million-baht surety.
The court did not grant her bail, saying she posed a flight risk. Pemika has since been detained at the Central Women Correctional Institution in Bang Khen.
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