{"id":26485,"date":"2022-01-21T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26485"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:01:57","slug":"thailand-3-arrested-over-lottery-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-3-arrested-over-lottery-scam","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: 3 arrested over lottery scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police found three people had 200,000 unregistered lottery tickets worth over THB20m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.- On Thursday,<strong>\u00a0three lottery seller<\/strong>s were arrested in the Erawan Shrine district of Loei province\u00a0on suspicion of transferring 200,000 unregistered lottery tickets worth more than THB20m. The head of the anti-corruption unit, <strong>Police Major-General Jaroonkiat Pankaew<\/strong>, said the arrests came after a complaint that a group of lottery sellers were working with postal workers to inflate lottery prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and officers from the government lottery office first arrested two people behind the Erawan Shrine Thailand Post Office. Police found<strong>\u00a0more than 200 boxes containing lottery tickets inside a van<\/strong>, according to Nation Thailand. Another man found carrying 65 boxes of lottery tickets in his car was arrested at a petrol station, Jaroonkiat Pankaew reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-8-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling\">eight people were arrested<\/a>\u00a0after police raided an alleged illegal gambling operation at a two-story house in tambon Ban Suan, Muang district.\u00a0Those 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<p>Last December,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-police-dismantle-illegal-online-gambling-ring\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police carried out raids<\/a>&nbsp;at two luxury homes in Nonthaburi, where people were allegedly&nbsp;<strong>operating a website for online gambling<\/strong>. Four people were arrested for allegedly taking bets and paying out on winnings and police seized electronic gambling equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police found three people had 200,000 unregistered lottery tickets worth over THB20m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26497,"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 arrested multiple individuals in separate operations, seizing 200,000 unregistered lottery tickets valued at over THB20m and disrupting several illegal online gambling operations. These actions highlight ongoing regulatory enforcement against illicit gaming verticals and market integrity breaches in Thailand.","focusai_entities":"Police Major-General Jaroonkiat Pankaew, Government Lottery Office, Nation Thailand","focusai_location":"Thailand, Loei province, Erawan Shrine district, Muang district, tambon Ban Suan, Nonthaburi","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9), tech_data (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact of Illicit Operations?","query":"What is the estimated GGR impact of these illicit operations on Thailand's regulated lottery and potential iGaming market?"},{"label":"Regulatory Alignment in Thailand?","query":"How do these enforcement actions align with Thailand's broader strategy for gaming vertical regulation and B2C licensing frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-26485","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\/26485","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=26485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26494,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26485\/revisions\/26494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}