Officers in Chon Buri province have carried out a raid and dismantled an illegal gambling ring that was allegedly operating three illegal gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thailand.-\u00a0Eight people\u00a0<\/strong>have been arrested after police raided an alleged illegal gambling operation at a two-story house in tambon Ban Suan, Muang district. Those arrested, aged between 19 to 31 years old, were allegedly using the house as a centre to administer online gambling websites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During the raid, police seized computers and mobile phones. According to Bangkok Post, the three illegal gambling websites had more than 100,000 members in total and the operation had THB100m in bets in circulation each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last December,\u00a0police carried out raids<\/a>\u00a0at two luxury homes in Nonthaburi, where people were allegedly\u00a0operating a website for online gambling<\/strong>.\u00a0Four people were arrested for allegedly taking bets and paying out on winnings and police seized electronic gambling equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thailand is debating the legalisation 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 against legalising gambling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Officers in Chon Buri province have carried out a raid and dismantled an illegal gambling ring that was allegedly operating three illegal gambling websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26405,"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 in Chon Buri dismantled a significant illegal online gambling operation, arresting eight individuals involved in administering three websites with over 100,000 members and circulating THB100m monthly. This enforcement action highlights the persistent challenge of illicit iGaming activities in jurisdictions where gambling remains largely prohibited, even as Thailand debates potential casino legalization amidst public opposition.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Thailand, Chon Buri, Ban Suan, Muang district, Nonthaburi","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Legalization Debate","query":"How might the continued high-profile enforcement against illegal iGaming operations influence the ongoing legislative debate regarding casino and online gambling legalization in Thailand?"},{"label":"AML & Payment Risks","query":"What specific financial crime prevention measures are being considered by Thai authorities to disrupt the payment flows and money laundering activities associated with large-scale illegal gambling rings?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-26371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371","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=26371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26379,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26371\/revisions\/26379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}