Chamoy Thipyaso
Chamoy Thipayaso ( th, ชม้อย ทิพย์โส; ; born 27 November 1940) is a former employee of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand. She is known for receiving the world's longest prison sentence of lifetime imprisonment or 141,078 years for her involvement in a pyramid scheme that defrauded more than 16,000 Thais and is estimated to have been worth between $200 million and $301 million. Mae Chamoy Fund In the late 1960s, Thipayaso started a chit fund called the Mae Chamoy Fund, which was made to look like an oil share with high returns. Due to Thipayaso's connections with the Air Force and Petroleum Authority, the fund was able to sustain itself for a remarkably long time. Her connections to the military were a huge factor in political and business power, and so its apparent military backing made the scheme seem legitimate. The scheme drew in 16,231 clients, and was not shut down until the mid-1980s. Arrest and prison sentence The fund had a large number ...
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Chamoy, Aube
Chamoy () is a commune in the Aube department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in north-central France. Population See also * Communes of the Aube department References Communes of Aube Aube communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Aube-geo-stub ...
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