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SEC revokes approval for an investment consultant for 10 years due to misappropriation of client’s money



Tuesday 5 May 2020 | No. 88 / 2020


Bangkok, 5 May 2020 – SEC has revoked the approval for a securities investment consultant named Ms. Sunisa Yemsantea for 10 years, starting from 6 May 2020, on account of committing wrongful acts against investor’s assets by concealing, dissembling, fabricating false evidence, misappropriating a client’s money and using it for personal benefit at the approximate amount of 2.5 million baht.

In addition, SEC shall not accept her future application for approval as capital market business personnel until the revocation period ends. At the time of her misconduct, Sunisa was working for TMB Bank Public Company Limited (TMB).

According to the operating report of TMB, a Limited Broker Dealer and Underwriter (LBDU) licensee, and SEC’s further investigation, it was found that Sunisa had misappropriated the client’s money by forging the client’s signature, revising the client’s significant information to access the client’s mobile banking account and transferring money from the client’s account to her own account. 

Moreover, there was a cash withdrawal of 1 million baht at a bank counter for which the client had signed on the withdrawal slip in advance without writing down a specific amount. She also executed transactions of mutual fund unit subscription, but not until she had transferred the subscription money to her own account first. In this regard, Sunisa submitted a written confession that she had misappropriated the client’s money and used it for her own benefit at the approximate amount of 2.5 million baht. 

SEC has considered that Sunisa failed to perform duties or provide services with loyalty* by concealing, hiding and fabricating false evidence, and therefore revoked the approval and will not accept her future application for approval as personnel in the capital market business for a period of 10 years, effective from 6 May 2020.


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Note:
* Pursuant to Clause 23(1) and the prohibited characteristics of personnel in the capital market business under Clause 31(1) of the Notification of the Capital Market Supervisory Board No. Tor Lor Thor. 8/2557 Re: Rules on Personnel in the Capital Market Business dated 3 June 2014, as amended by the Notification of the Capital Market Supervisory Board No. Tor Lor Thor. 48/2560 Re: Rules on Personnel in the Capital Market Business (No. 7) dated 30 August 2017.