{"id":20188,"date":"2021-07-13T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:40:37","slug":"thailand-18-arrested-over-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-18-arrested-over-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: 18 arrested over online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Thailand have arrested 18 people for alleged involvement in an online gambling syndicate that offered betting on football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.- Authorities in Thailand have\u00a0<strong>arrested 18 people\u00a0<\/strong>in raids on two houses in Pathum Thani that were allegedly being used as bases for an online gambling syndicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand\u2019s Cyber Police said the<strong> <\/strong>syndicate\u00a0ran online gambling sites and online football betting.\u00a0According to local media,\u00a0<strong>police seized 16 computers, luxury cars and money<\/strong>. Those arrested were also charged for breaching Covid-19 social distancing measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, officers raided a house in Northern Thailand and\u00a0<strong>arrested two men for operating an online gambling website<\/strong>\u00a0during the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-2-arrested-over-illegal-online-gambling-operation\">2020 European Football Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police seized a notebook and desktop computers, 19 bankbooks and 200 grams of marijuana. Those arrested are aged 36 and 22. They are reported to have admitted to working on a site named gothambetvip, which\u00a0<strong>handled between US$313,500 to US$627,000 per month in bets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, authorities said they had <strong>arrested 104 people\u00a0<\/strong>suspected of running\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-104-arrested-for-offering-online-betting-on-football\">online football betting websites<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Police officers were investigating more than 167 websites<\/strong>\u00a0for promoting online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Thailand have arrested 18 people for alleged involvement in an online gambling syndicate that offered betting on football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18053,"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 their crackdown on illicit online gambling operations, leading to the arrest of 18 individuals involved in a football betting syndicate in Pathum Thani. This action follows previous enforcement efforts, including 104 arrests last month and ongoing investigations into over 167 gambling websites, underscoring a concerted regulatory push against unregulated market activities.","focusai_entities":"Thailand's Cyber Police, gothambetvip","focusai_location":"Thailand, Pathum Thani, Northern Thailand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact","query":"What is the estimated Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) leakage from the Thai market due to these identified illegal online football betting syndicates, and how does this influence the potential for future regulated market frameworks?"},{"label":"Regulatory Trajectory","query":"How do these intensified enforcement actions against illegal online gambling in Thailand signal the government's long-term regulatory trajectory for iGaming, particularly concerning potential B2C licensing or continued prohibition?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,4138],"class_list":["post-20188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188","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=20188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}