Siriluck Fatima Chimmalee denied bail for third time over dating app fraud

A woman who allegedly pretended to be a doctor, a designer and a pilotto scam rich men out of money has failed to get bail. 

Accused con artist and multi-million dollar romance fraudster Siriluck Fatima Chimmalee has been denied bail for a third time.

Thai National Chimmalee, 28, accused of running a $9.7m Ponzi scheme conning wealthy men she met on dating apps, represented herself on Tuesday in the Supreme Court.

Chimmalee failed to convince the court her charges were “unjustified”, the Crown’s evidence was “defective” and a police investigation was not properly conducted.

Siriluck Fatima Chimmalee posing as a doctor on LinkedIn. Picture: LinkedIn.

The woman, who allegedly posed as a lawyer, pilot, student doctor, and a trader of designer handbags, faces more than 100 charges including dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage or causing disadvantage by deception.

She is alleged to have offered better rates for customers transferring Australian dollars to Thai Baht than was available through the banks.

NSW Supreme Court Justice Richard Button refused bail telling the court there was a risk she would fail to appear and that she may contact a Crown witness.

A claim she had called an alleged victim from jail on September 16, 2020 was “impossible”, she said, with a prison call log tendered to the court showing she was on the phone to her lawyer at the same time.

Chimmalee said she also did not know how he had been put on her prison call list.

The alleged scammer on the day she was arrested.

Claims made against her were “unacceptable, unforgivable and untrue”, including that she stole almost $10m, she told the court.

“I completely reject that kind of money was in play,” Chimalee said.

Justice Button told the court even if the prosecution case was not “overly strong”, he was not convinced she should be released.

Justice Stephen Rothman and Justice Richard Cavanagh denied her bail on two earlier occasions.

Two businesses she was a sole director and shareholder of that received money in the scheme, including Sydney Organic Supplier Pty Ltd and Real Money Transfer Pty Ltd, were each cancelled in 2020, according to ASIC.

The court heard an alleged victim has launched separate court proceedings in Thailand.

She is due back in the Supreme Court on April 9.