{"id":27804,"date":"2022-03-04T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=27804"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:47:39","slug":"thailand-14-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-14-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: 14 arrested for illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Thailand have carried out a new series of raids that ended with the arrest of 14 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.- Investigations around illegal gambling website Gimi88 have led to the arrests of 14 more suspects. Police also seized assets worth more than THB75m from the alleged owner of the gambling website, which was shut down after\u00a0<strong>the arrest of 46 suspects on February 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 24, police arrested Chanonpat Naksua, chairman of Nakhon Si Thammarat Football Club on suspicion of running the website and laundering money through his football club. During the latest raids,\u00a0<strong>officers seized three cars, THB50m and other items<\/strong>. Police also revealed that up to THB1bn was found circulating via the illegal gambling website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month ago, a police raid in Pattaya, Thailand, ended with the&nbsp;<strong>seizure of $15m from alleged illegal gambling operators<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-42-arrested-at-illegal-casino-in-hotel\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrest of 42 people<\/a>. Police carried out the raid at the four-star Le Vernissage Hotel in North Pattaya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Thailand have carried out a new series of raids that ended with the arrest of 14 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19386,"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 conducted multiple raids targeting the illegal gambling website Gimi88, leading to the arrest of 14 additional suspects and the seizure of assets exceeding THB75m. Investigations revealed approximately THB1bn circulating through the illicit platform, with a football club chairman implicated in operating the site and money laundering.","focusai_entities":"Gimi88, Chanonpat Naksua, Nakhon Si Thammarat Football Club, Le Vernissage Hotel","focusai_location":"Thailand, Pattaya, Nakhon Si Thammarat","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Thailand GGR Leakage?","query":"What is the estimated GGR leakage to the black market in Thailand, and how might these enforcement actions influence future regulatory frameworks for iGaming?"},{"label":"AML Efficacy Thailand?","query":"How effective are current AML frameworks in Thailand at detecting and disrupting large-scale illicit financial flows associated with illegal gambling operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911,4138],"class_list":["post-27804","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\/27804","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=27804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27833,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27804\/revisions\/27833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}