{"id":777002847,"date":"2023-02-28T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002847"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:13:57","slug":"activist-accuses-thai-police-of-running-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/activist-accuses-thai-police-of-running-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Activist accuses Thai police of running illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An activist has accused officers, including the former chief of the national police, of running online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.-&nbsp;The activist <strong>Achariya Ruangrattanapong<\/strong> has accused Thai police officers, including the former head of the National Police, of running illegal online gambling. Ruangrattanapong placed a banner outside the Royal Thai Police headquarters in Pathumwan, Bangkok, on Monday, naming 16 officers he says have been involved in gambling operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ruangrattanapong, the former police chief controlled<strong> 70 per cent of the online gambling websites <\/strong>operating in Thailand and delegated much of the work to police lieutenant generals. He claimed that nearly 100 others could be involved. He also says a football club was used to launder money from gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tristan-sjoberg-tcsjohnhuxley-casino-legalisation-in-thailand-will-redraw-the-mass-market-asian-gaming-map\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Sj\u00f6berg, TCSJOHNHUXLEY: \u201cCasino legalisation in Thailand will redraw the mass-market Asian gaming map\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An activist has accused officers, including the former chief of the national police, of running online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"An activist has publicly accused high-ranking Thai police officers, including the former national chief, of operating extensive illegal online gambling networks and engaging in money laundering via a football club. These allegations highlight significant governance and regulatory compliance challenges within Thailand's illicit iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Achariya Ruangrattanapong, Royal Thai Police","focusai_location":"Thailand, Bangkok, Pathumwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"iGaming Regulatory Impact?","query":"What are the long-term implications of these corruption allegations for the potential future legalisation and regulatory framework development of iGaming in Thailand?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Concerns?","query":"How will these accusations of high-level law enforcement involvement in illegal gambling affect investor confidence in the integrity and rule of law within the Thai market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777002847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002847","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=777002847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002864,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002847\/revisions\/777002864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}