The 22-year-old university student who recently exposed nationwide embezzlement of financial aid for the destitute on Monday asked the government to seize the assets of the discredited Magic Skin beauty products for use in reimbursing its sales agents - who include herself.
Panida Yotpanya and dozens of other people filed the request at the Government House complaints centre.
Ms Panida said she became a sales agent for Magic Skin in March last year, buying hundreds of thousands of baht worth of its whitening beauty products sold under the name Treechada.
When the products were rejected by the Food and Drug Administration the company refused to make refunds, instead trying to replace agents' stocks with other products that were also found to be substandard or unlicensed.
She had hoped to make money for her family and future education by being a sales agent, but when authorities took action against Magic Skin, all business stopped. Ms Panida said she had other sales agents also working for her.
In February Ms Panida, while working as a student intern at a protection centre for the destitute in Khon Kaen province, filed a complaint that she was ordered to fill in benefit forms and sign receipts on behalf of 2,000 villagers for a total of 6.9 million baht.
The case sparked an investigation into the embezzlement of welfare funds at such centres nationwide and investigators found a huge percentage of cases where the destitute either received no money or were not fully paid.
