Officers in Bangkok carried out a raid and dismantled an illegal gambling ring located in a condominium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thailand.-\u00a0Five people <\/strong>have been arrested\u00a0after police raised an illegal gambling operation at a condominium in Bangkok’s Bang Khen district. According to officers, those arrested, aged between 25 to 28 years old, were\u00a0operating a website for online gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bangkok Post reported that during the raid, police seized computers, monitors, wi-fi routers and eight mobile phones. The illegal gambling ring allegedly generated nearly 2m baht a month in revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of those arrested said the illegal gambling hub was previously operating in Cambodia<\/strong>. It moved to Thailand due to the Covid-19 pandemic but was planning to return to Cambodia by the end of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In October,\u00a0police arrested 30 people<\/a>\u00a0for alleged involvement in an illegal gambling venue located at a resort in the Takean Tia sub-district of Bang Lamung. In November, it was also revealed\u00a0103 Thai citizens were rescued<\/a>\u00a0from a Chinese-run online gambling ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a Thai police official responsible for overseeing anti-human trafficking operations, Thai and Cambodian officials cooperated in an operation in the southern Cambodian province of Pursat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roy Ingkaroj, deputy national police chief, told Khmer Times: \u201cWhen Thai officials learned of the incident, we contacted Cambodian security forces in Pursat and the Thai embassy to rescue them. On the morning of Nov. 23, they rescued 103.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officers in Bangkok carried out a raid and dismantled an illegal gambling ring located in a condominium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25241,"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 dismantled an illegal online gambling operation in Bangkok, arresting five individuals and seizing equipment. The ring, generating approximately 2m baht monthly, had previously operated in Cambodia before relocating due to the pandemic and planned to return. This incident follows other recent busts and a significant joint Thai-Cambodian operation that rescued 103 Thai citizens from a separate Chinese-run online gambling ring in Cambodia.","focusai_entities":"Bangkok Post, Roy Ingkaroj, Khmer Times","focusai_location":"Bangkok, Thailand, Cambodia, Bang Khen, Bang Lamung, Takean Tia, Pursat","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement Efficacy?","query":"What specific inter-governmental frameworks or bilateral agreements are being leveraged to enhance cross-border enforcement against illicit iGaming operations between Thailand and Cambodia?"},{"label":"Illicit Market Impact?","query":"How do the estimated GGRs of these dismantled illicit operations compare to the regulated market potential, and what is the projected impact on licensed operators' market share and investor sentiment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911,4138],"class_list":["post-25229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229","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=25229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25249,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25229\/revisions\/25249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}