{"id":28521,"date":"2022-03-29T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28521"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:05:44","slug":"thailand-10-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-10-arrested-for-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Thailand: 10 arrested for illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Thailand have carried out a series of raids that ended with the arrest of 10 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.- Police have raided operation centres for<strong>\u00a016 online gambling sites<\/strong>\u00a0in Nonthaburi province and arrested 10 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bangkok Post, a team with a court order first raided a house that was being used by the gambling site bxslots.com. Officers said that five people in the house were found to chatt with clients online and process financial transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police then found there were 15 other sites on the same network, each in a residential building in Muang Thong Thani, Pak Kret district. Officers split into teams to raid the other locations. Five other people were arrested during the search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, five men and five women arrested. Police also seized computers, monitors, mobile phones, five fingerprint scanners, internet equipment, four security cameras and computer accessories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, 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>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities are studying the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-analyses-legalisation-of-casinos\" target=\"_blank\">legalisation of gambling in Thailand<\/a>\u00a0and considering the possibility of allowing a casino in Bangkok first. The government, which has historically opposed gambling, is considering casinos due to the Covid-19 pandemic\u2019s impact on the country\u2019s economy and tourism.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Thailand have carried out a series of raids that ended with the arrest of 10 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26657,"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 raids on 16 illegal online gambling operations in Nonthaburi province, leading to 10 arrests and significant equipment seizures. This action occurs amidst ongoing governmental consideration of gambling legalisation, including potential casino development in Bangkok, driven by economic recovery efforts.","focusai_entities":"bxslots.com","focusai_location":"Thailand, Nonthaburi, Muang Thong Thani, Pak Kret, Pattaya, Bangkok","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Thailand Legalisation Impact","query":"What specific governance frameworks and B2B\/B2C licensing structures are being considered by the Thai government to transition from current enforcement actions against illegal operations to a regulated iGaming and land-based casino market?"},{"label":"Enforcement Strategy Evolution","query":"How do these recent large-scale enforcement actions against illegal online gambling operators in Thailand align with or diverge from the government's stated intent to explore gambling legalisation as an economic stimulus?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-28521","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\/28521","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=28521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28524,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28521\/revisions\/28524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}