Dentist ‘could be extradited’
AN EXPERT in debt management has recommended filing both bankruptcy and criminal lawsuits against a female dentist who violated her government scholarship contract’s conditions and passed on the huge financial burden over the breach to her guarantors.
The first move can destroy her credibility significantly, while the latter could even get her extradited back from the United States (US). She is now married to an American.
“By having her declared a bankrupt person, she will lose her credibility. It matters a lot to a person teaching at an overseas university,” Chuchart Boonyongyos, who chairs a club related to credit-card and personal-loan debts in Thailand, recently pointed out.
Although Chuchart didn’t mention Dr Dolrudee Jumlongras by name, he is apparently referring to her now much-publicised case.
At present, Dolrudee is teaching at the prestigious Harvard University. But in fact, the contract that paved way for her to study for her master’s and a doctorate degrees at Harvard required her to come back to Thailand to teach at the state-run Mahidol University (MU). However, she quit MU after completing her doctorate studies. By breaking the contract, her four guarantors were forced to pay Bt8million.
Chuchart said under Thai law, anyone who has gone bankrupt would not be able to leave the country without permission from the court.
“That means if she happens to visit Thailand, she won’t be able to leave,” he said.
He added that by filing criminal actions against the female dentist, she could be extradited back from the US where she had been living for more than a decade now.
