Cyber ??police expand investigation into large gambling website of Chinese mafia gang, arresting additional account owner, claiming that he was just being kind and lending money to a friend.
Following on from Friday, June 21, 2014 at 1:30 p.m., Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat Watnakornbancha, Commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division, led cyber police to jointly announce the SHUTDOWN EURO BET operation, which raided 2 major Euro betting websites, the wm88.vip network and the x-stand .com network, which had a turnover of 1.4 billion baht in the first half of the year, and arrested 3 Chinese gang leaders, 2 out of 3 of whom were spouses who were beneficiaries or owners of the websites, while another Chinese person laundered the money from the gambling websites to make it legal, and arrested 4 other Thais who performed important duties, and were able to seize and freeze all assets, totaling approximately 287,396,713 baht.
Pol. Lt. Gen. Worawat ordered an expansion of all dimensions to arrest all suspects i
nvolved in the entire operation. Pol. Maj. Gen. Statit Prom-Uthai, Commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division 3, assigned Pol. Col. Adhichat Amornpradit, Director of the News Analysis and Special Equipment Division, Technology Crime Suppression Division 3, to organize a team of officers to investigate the area further, which led to the arrest of several more suspects involved in the operation.
Most recently, Pol. Lt. Col. Wirasak Kaewniam, Deputy Director of News Analysis, Technology Crime Suppression Division 3, Pol. Lt. Col. Loesak Pichetphaibun, and Pol. Lt. Col. Thawat Thukruea, Superintendent of News Analysis, Technology Crime Suppression Division 3, led forces to arrest one of the bank account owners whose money flowed from the aforementioned online gambling network, Mr. Wathana, aged 31, from Udon Thani, according to the arrest warrant of the Criminal Court No. 2780/2567 dated 18 June 2024 on charges of ‘jointly organizing gambling or using tricks to lure, help advertise or directly or ind
irectly persuade others to gamble or bet on electronic gambling without permission from an official, colluding by agreement of two or more persons to commit money laundering and committing money laundering because of the colluding and jointly laundering money.’ He was arrested while traveling to work at an industrial factory in Tambon Ban Krua, Amphoe Ban Mo, Saraburi Province.
Initially, the person in question denied the charges, stating that a friend had asked to borrow his bank account, so he agreed to let him. The police officers therefore took him to the investigation officer to proceed with legal action, and are urgently expanding the investigation to arrest more suspects in the gambling website network.
Source: Thai News Agency