Police in Hat Yai district have arrested 16 people for illegal gambling and breaching Covid-19 social distance measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thailand.- Officers in Thailand have reported that 16 people were arrested district for illegal gambling<\/strong> during a raid\u00a0at a townhouse in Hat Yai. Five men and 11 women were allegedly playing cards<\/strong>. During the raid, police seized five decks of cards and THB14,400 in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hat Yai district security chief Theeradet Janmanee, told the Bangkok Post that those arrested were also breaching social distance measures while playing inside an airconditioned room with no outside ventilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A week ago, five people were arrested<\/a> after police raided an illegal gambling operation at a condominium in Bangkok\u2019s Bang Khen district. According to officers, those arrested, aged between 25 to 28 years old, were operating a website for online gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thailand is debating the\u00a0legalisation of casinos<\/a>. However, in a poll carried out by the National Institute of Development Administration, 56.83 per cent of residents said they were\u00a0against legalising gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police in Hat Yai district have arrested 16 people for illegal gambling and breaching Covid-19 social distance measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25798,"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 conducted two separate enforcement actions, arresting 16 individuals for illegal card gambling and COVID-19 social distancing breaches in Hat Yai, and five others for operating an illegal online gambling website in Bangkok. These arrests occur amidst an ongoing national debate regarding casino legalization, which faces significant public opposition according to a recent poll.","focusai_entities":"Theeradet Janmanee, Bangkok Post, National Institute of Development Administration","focusai_location":"Thailand, Hat Yai, Bangkok, Bang Khen","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Legalization Impact?","query":"How do these enforcement actions and public sentiment influence the timeline and scope of potential iGaming and casino legalization efforts in Thailand?"},{"label":"Market Entry Risks?","query":"What are the primary regulatory and operational risks for international operators considering market entry into a potentially legalized Thai gaming sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-25786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786","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=25786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25810,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions\/25810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}