DSI sends case file of billion-baht gambling website, Maemon network, turnover exceeds 5 billion baht!
Yesterday (July 12, 2024) at 10.00 a.m., Pol. Lt. Col. Khemchat Prakaihongmanee, Director of the Technology and Information Crime Division, Mr. Ratchaphruek Chudam, Deputy Director of the Technology and Information Crime Division, Head of the Special Case Investigation Team 76/2023, assigned Mr. Ratchaporn Wora-in, Director of the Cyber ??Investigation Center, Technology and Information Crime Division, along with the Special Case Investigation Team to travel to the Special Case Office, Office of the Attorney General, Ratchadaphisek Road, to submit 22 files, totaling 7,618 pages, for the Office of the Attorney General to consider taking action.
The case is a result of the Technology and Information Crime Division, Department of Special Investigation, investigating special case 76/2566, in which a group of offenders accessed bank accounts of other persons other than themselves via mobile banking application
s and/or internet banking to commit an offense in the form of advertising or inviting others to gamble via electronic media, which allows the general public to access online gambling. The investigation report has been summarized and it is considered appropriate to indict 38 suspects for the offenses of jointly accessing computer systems and computer data with specific access prevention measures, jointly organizing gambling or using tricks to directly or indirectly advertise or invite others to gamble, jointly laundering money and using another person’s electronic card illegally according to the Computer Crime Act B.E. 2550 and amendments, the Gambling Act B.E. 2478 and amendments, and the Anti-Money Laundering Act B.E. 2542 and amendments. At present, 15 suspects have been arrested and detained for prosecution, and 23 more are being tracked down.
In this case, the Department of Special Investigation has joined forces with the Department of Provincial Administration and the Institute of Forensic Medicine to o
pen a special case search operation No. 76/2566, the online gambling website network (Maemon Network) at 15 locations simultaneously in Nonthaburi, Nakhon Sawan and Lopburi provinces on Tuesday, April 30, 2567. Officers brought a search warrant from the Criminal Court to search target areas related to online gambling websites and arrested 13 suspects, 7 women and 6 men, who were at the level of capitalists and administrators of online gambling websites. Later, 2 more female suspects were arrested, totaling 15 people. Assets worth more than 500 million baht were seized/frozen. The behavior was that they jointly organized gambling to take property, organized online or electronic gambling through multiple websites illegally. When they received money from the general public who gambled, they would transfer it to mule accounts and then transfer it to other bank accounts in many stages, or hide the financial trail and withdraw money from the system by withdrawing cash with ATM cards to avoid the scrutiny of governm
ent agencies. The online gambling network has a total of 6 affiliated websites and many other websites.
From the investigation of the financial trail, it was found that there was more than 700 million baht circulating in the first row website account, but the total circulating capital of the system was more than 5 billion baht, which is considered a large-scale operation with more than 100,000 gambling members, dozens of admin teams, and the use of dozens of mule accounts to receive money transfers, including using the accounts of the deceased to receive money transfers. The special case investigation team has already notified the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) to take legal action. The Technology and Information Crime Division will coordinate with the Investigation, Tracking, and Intelligence Center to expand the investigation and track down the remaining 23 suspects.
Source: Thai News Agency