{"id":28555,"date":"2022-03-30T10:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:03:01","slug":"thailand-and-cambodia-join-forces-to-crack-down-on-online-gambling-dens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-and-cambodia-join-forces-to-crack-down-on-online-gambling-dens","title":{"rendered":"Thailand and Cambodia join forces to crack down on online gambling dens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Thai and Cambodian governments have aligned to suppress call-centre scammers and operators of online gambling dens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Thailand.- Representatives of the governments of Thailand and Cambodia have met to sign\u00a0a memorandum of understanding\u00a0<\/strong>to tackle online gambling hub operators and call-centre scammers. Thailand says all affected government agencies have been ordered to join the crackdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana<\/strong>, spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office of Thailand said the agreement reflects the government’s increased efforts to crack down on scammers and online gambling on orders from Prime Minister Prayuth Prayut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spokesman said the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society was integrating its operations with other government agencies to crack down on call centre gangs and gambling sites. Over the past year, the collaboration has resulted in the arrest of as many as 6,348 suspects<\/strong> in 5,517 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooperation between government agencies also led to the shutdown of 742 gambling sites in the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wangboonkongchana\u00a0also referred to\u00a0a series of raids<\/a>\u00a0that ended with the arrest of 10 people in Nonthaburi province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bangkok Post, a team with a court order first raided\u00a0a house that was being used by the gambling site bxslots.com<\/strong>. Officers said that five people in the house were found to chat with clients online and process financial transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police then 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

A few weeks ago, police also made\u00a0a series of arrests<\/a>\u00a0related to the illegal gambling website Gimi88, which was shut down after\u00a0the arrest of 46 suspects on February 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Thai and Cambodian governments have aligned to suppress call-centre scammers and operators of online gambling dens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Thailand and Cambodia have formalized a memorandum of understanding to intensify their joint efforts against online gambling dens and call-centre scams. This bilateral agreement, driven by Thailand's Prime Minister, has already led to significant arrests and the shutdown of numerous illicit gambling sites, signaling a heightened regional focus on regulatory enforcement and combating illegal iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Thailand, Cambodia, Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, Prime Minister\u2019s Office of Thailand, Prayuth Prayut, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, Bangkok Post, bxslots.com, Gimi88","focusai_location":"Thailand, Cambodia, Nonthaburi province, Muang Thong Thani, Pak Kret district","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-Border Enforcement Impact","query":"What specific governance frameworks and technical cooperation mechanisms will Thailand and Cambodia implement to ensure sustained, effective cross-border enforcement against illicit iGaming operations, and what are the projected long-term impacts on regional black markets?"},{"label":"Regulated Market Outlook","query":"Given the intensified crackdown on illegal gambling, how might this bilateral agreement influence the political will or timeline for establishing regulated iGaming markets in Thailand or Cambodia, and what implications does this hold for legitimate B2B\/B2C operators seeking market entry?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,158,16333],"tags":[229,23911,4138],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","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\/28555","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=28555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28562,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions\/28562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}