More than 40 suspects have been detained in a series of raids in 10 provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- Thai police have carried out\u00a0a series of raids in 52 locations in 10 provinces<\/strong>, seizing more than US$12.3m in assets and cash from an alleged illegal online gambling network. Police made 40 arrests and seized ATM cards, more than 200 bank books and 41 cell phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) say the organisation targeted was a major online gambling network based <\/strong>in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen. According to the Thai Public Broadcasting Service, the network had been running three online gambling websites for three years, with\u00a0more than 50,000 players using them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When players transferred to the sites’ accounts, it was quickly withdrawn and transferred to other accounts in an attempt to hide the money trail, police say. The sites are reported to have turned over around BAT2m per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this week,\u00a0Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn<\/strong>, Thailand\u2019s minister of digital economy and society, reported that\u00a0<\/strong>2,819 websites have been closed over the past year<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in a campaign against online gambling. The ministry collects evidence on online gambling and submits it to the court to have the sites taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaiwut noted that the number of sites taken down had more than doubled over the previous year, with 1,259 <\/strong>sites taken down between September 2020 and August 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July, the Thai committee<\/a> tasked with studying the possibility of allowing integrated resorts with casinos<\/a> submitted its final report to the National Assembly and recommended that the government should issue a decree allowing such developments in key cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 40 suspects have been detained in a series of raids in 10 provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14302,"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 dismantled a significant illegal online gambling network, arresting over 40 individuals and seizing assets exceeding US$12.3 million across 10 provinces. This operation follows a broader governmental crackdown, with the Minister of Digital Economy and Society reporting the closure of 2,819 illicit gambling websites in the past year. Concurrently, a Thai committee has recommended legalizing integrated resorts with casinos, signaling potential shifts in the nation's gaming policy landscape.","focusai_entities":"Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, Crime Suppression Division (CSD), Thai Public Broadcasting Service, National Assembly","focusai_location":"Thailand, Khon Kaen","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Black Market GGR Impact?","query":"Given the reported BAT2m daily turnover of the dismantled illegal network, what is the estimated total GGR of Thailand's black market, and how might its suppression influence the viability and regulatory framework for a future licensed iGaming sector?"},{"label":"IR Licensing Framework?","query":"Following the committee's recommendation, what specific governance frameworks and B2B\/B2C licensing structures are anticipated for the proposed integrated resorts, and what are the projected timelines for legislative enactment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-33742","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\/33742","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=33742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33746,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33742\/revisions\/33746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}