{"id":193276,"date":"2025-12-20T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193276\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:04:08","slug":"thai-police-arrest-olympic-gold-medallist-boxer-on-the-run-for-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193276\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai police arrest Olympic gold medallist boxer on the run for fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Olympic gold medallist Manus Boonjumnong has been arrested in Thailand over a lottery fraud case. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

A fugitive Olympic gold medallist boxer who was on the run after failing to appear in court for lottery fraud has been tracked down by police in Thailand and arrested.<\/p>\n

\n Police today said they found and arrested Manus Boonjumnong, 45, a suspect wanted for failing to appear in court on
\n two counts of fraud, at a \u201chideout\u201d in Nonthaburi province.\n <\/p>\n

The light welterweight boxer, who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004 and silver in Beijing four years later, defrauded victims out of 2 million baht ($110,000) in government lottery ticket quotas in 2021.<\/p>\n

He was given two years and nine months in prison but failed to appear at court for his sentencing earlier this year.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the court ordered his imprisonment at Bangkok Remand Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 20 Dec, 2025 05:08 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,12642,14466,11924,1558,92456,1349,6097,6130,2082,3561,11782,4241,46880,94586,111,139,69,25292,90,675,8145,213,25067,4327,223,103489],"class_list":["post-193276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-appear","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-been","tag-boxer","tag-court","tag-down","tag-failing","tag-for","tag-fraud","tag-fugitive","tag-gold","tag-lottery","tag-medallist","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympic","tag-on","tag-police","tag-run","tag-sports","tag-thai","tag-thailand","tag-the","tag-tracked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}