Net Worth: $3.4 B
Source of Wealth: hospitals
Residence: Bangkok, Thailand
Citizenship: Thailand
- Former surgeon Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth cofounded Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Thailand’s largest private hospital operator, in 1972.
- Bangkok Dusit has a $370 million luxury healthcare complex in Bangkok that includes a 290-room Movenpick hotel.
- Prasert also also owns and runs regional airline, Bangkok Airways, which he took public in 2014.
- He and daughter Poramaporn resigned after the SEC imposed sanctions against them in January 2019 for allegedly manipulating shares of Bangkok Airways.
- In a company statement, Prasert said they would prove their innocence through the justice system but subsequently paid a fine.