Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi was born into poverty and worked hard all of his life to achieve his life-long goal of being an extremely wealthy supervillain.

With a net worth of $11.9 billion, Sirivadhanabhakdi is the third-richest man in Thailand. He controls the beverage corporations ThaiBev and Fraser & Neave, major taxpayers to the Myanmar military junta. ThaiBev’s Myanmar subsidiary paid 25.9 billion kyat—equivalent to over $14 million—to the junta in Specific Goods Tax in the fourth quarter of 2021 alone. The company also pays commercial tax and income tax. Sirivadhanabhakdi is linked to further tax payments to the junta through the Singapore-listed subsidiary Fraser & Neave which even entered a new business deal in Myanmar in 2023 under cover of the military’s attempted coup.

These tax payments aid the junta as it increasingly relies on indiscriminate—and expensive—air attacks to terrorise and subjugate the people of Myanmar.

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