About 100 sales representatives of the trouble-plagued iCon Group rallied in front of the Office of the Attorney General today, seeking justice.
In a petition letter, addressed to Attorney-General Phairach Pornsomboonsiri, the sales reps claim that iCon Group was not involved in illegal business and that they had received products from the company as promised, before the company’s warehouse was found to be empty when raided by officers from the Department of Special Investigation.
The group asked the attorney-general to instruct the DSI to question all 1,444 complainants, who claim that they were cheated by iCon Group, and lift the freezing of sales reps’ bank accounts.
OAG spokesman Sakkasem Neesaiyok, who received the petition, said that the OAG has not yet received the case file from the DSI, but will take their petition into consideration.
Investors in iCon Group’s direct marketing business are split into those claiming that they were duped by the company and that they did not receive or only received some of the goods promised by the company and a minority of the investors who defend the company.
Eighteen executives of the company, including three celebrities, are being held in remand prisons on charges of defrauding the public and money laundering.
The DSI claims that the company actually engaged in pyramid scheme, by focusing on encouraging the investors to recruit new investors in return for commissions, rather than on selling the company’s products.
