Bangkok, The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) launched an operation, “CIB Anti-Online Scam, to arrest a gang that faked Aurora gold shop pages and deceived stock trading. They arrested 4 Chinese leaders of the gang and found more than 1,200 million baht in circulation.
Pol. Lt. Gen. Jiraphop Phuridej, Commander of the Central Investigation Police Together with the police, the Economic Crime Suppression Division (OCEC) announced the results of the CIB Anti – Online Scam operation: rooting out the fake page gang. Famous gold shop Aurora defrauded stock trading by raiding and arresting 21 targets in 8 provinces including Bangkok, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Chonburi, Surin, Chaiyaphum and Tak yesterday (30 Oct.) arrested Mr. Xiao Yang Fei, 30 years old, the leader of the movement at command level, along with 4 Chinese people, arrested another 23 people hired to open horse accounts and seized 28 million baht in cash in Bitkub, 23 account books, 21 phones, 19 SIM cards. Three laptops and tablet computers, 100,000 baht in cash, CCTV cameras and 20 other documents, totaling 30,928,305 baht, and from the investigation it was found that the movement had more than 1,200 million baht in circulation.
Police Lieutenant General Jirapop revealed that previously there were victims who came to report complaints. Deceived into investing Therefore, the investigation was expanded until it was discovered that the criminal had a habit of creating a scam to defraud victims through a fake Facebook page. It is claimed to be a Facebook page. “Aurora Gold Shop” uses a fake logo or document of the said gold shop. In addition, there is advertising through Facebook. Before being persuaded to invest in stock trading Which is divided into various packages and guarantees the investment time for each time, investing only 5-20 minutes will get a profit of up to 20-30% and when the victim is convinced and decides to invest. In the beginning, the victim actually made a profit. and withdraw money normally This increases the incentive to invest even more. Some have invested as much as 3.2 million baht because they believe they will make a profit in a short period of time. When the victim invests a higher amount of money Unable to withdraw money Because such investments are profitable. It’s just a number And the criminals have created conditions such as having to pay a trading advice fee or tax if they want to withdraw the invested money. From such cases, people are in trouble.
The attackers targeted retired government officials, dating groups, and individual investors. Fooled in believing and investing in a large number of (fake) stocks, resulting in nearly 4 million baht in damages, only those who reported it to the Office of the Provincial Administrative Organization, and it is believed that there were many more victims. Because money was found to have been transferred into four rows of horse accounts, with more than 1,200 million baht in circulation, the police gathered evidence. Request the court to issue arrest warrants for a total of 50 suspects and lead to the said operation. which has an operating base in Thailand for 2 years
Pol. Col. Teerapas Yungyuen, superintendent of the 3rd Police Station, provided information on the movement’s plan of attack. Mr. Xiao Yang Fei, the leader of the movement, will hire a Thai person to open a company. About real estate in Thailand Has proper registration They used the said company to launder money obtained from opening a fake gold shop page. In this process, there was a clear division of duties, divided into groups that created Facebook pages. advertising group Group that invites victims to invest victim scam group And the group acts to manipulate money in the account through horse accounts. which some of the money obtained from fraud There were 3 nominee companies that were revealed as fronts. Doing business related to buying and selling real estate for manipulation Convert fraudulent proceeds to become property or products for export to sell in neighboring countries and converted into digital currency (CRYPTO CURRENCY), even though when examining the Nominee company, there was no actual business operation. But there is more than 1,000 million baht in circulation.
Initially, the charges were reported. working together to defraud the people, working together to defraud the people by pretending to be someone else and enter into the computer system with false information in a manner that is likely to cause damage to the public and jointly borrowed money to defraud the public. From the investigation, the Chinese suspect still denies it.
Source: Thai News Agency