{"id":19394,"date":"2021-06-24T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:14:29","slug":"thailand-2-arrested-over-illegal-online-gambling-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-2-arrested-over-illegal-online-gambling-operation","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: 2 arrested over illegal online gambling operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Thailand have arrested two men for operating online gambling websites and handling up to US$627,000 per month in bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.- Officers raided a house on Song Kwai Road and\u00a0<strong>arrested two men for operating an online gambling website<\/strong>\u00a0during the 2020 European Football Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ppolice seized notebook and desktop computers, 19 bankbooks and 200 grams of marijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those arrested are aged 36 and 22. They are reported to have admitted to working with a gambling website called gothambetvip, which\u00a0<strong>handled between US$313,500 to US$627,000 per month in bets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have stepped up action against illegal gambling operations in Thailand, recently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-53-arrested-for-running-online-gaming-operation\">arresting 53 people<\/a>\u00a0who had booked out a whole resort in the Muang district to operate a call centre for an illegal online gambling network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the raid, officers seized computers, 300 phones and other assets related to gambling operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Thailand have arrested two men for operating online gambling websites and handling up to US$627,000 per month in bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Thai authorities have intensified enforcement against illicit online gambling, leading to multiple arrests and significant asset seizures. Operations, including one linked to the 2020 European Football Championship, processed up to US$627,000 monthly, highlighting ongoing challenges in unregulated markets.","focusai_entities":"gothambetvip, Police","focusai_location":"Thailand, Song Kwai Road, Muang district","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Thailand Regulatory Outlook","query":"What are the long-term implications of Thailand's intensified enforcement for potential iGaming market liberalization or continued prohibition?"},{"label":"Black Market Impact","query":"How do these significant illegal GGR figures in Thailand influence the broader Southeast Asian iGaming black market landscape and its competitive dynamics with regulated jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[757,4138],"class_list":["post-19394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-casino","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}