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A 32-year-old Chinese national was accused of operating a site worth THB2.5bn (US$70m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Thailand.- A 32-year-old Chinese national\u00a0has been arrested and deported for allegedly operating a gambling website valued at THB2.5bn (U$D70m). According to police reports, the man, identified as Huang, led\u00a0a criminal syndicate called Zhonghe, which ran the WANHE Football platform from a jurisdiction outside mainland China from March 2022 to April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December, the police issued a warrant for the man’s arrest. However, Huang escaped from China and took refuge in Thailand, where he entered on a Cambodian passport. He was arrested by immigration authorities in Bangkok’s Sathon district on February 8 and deported to China to face prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere,\u00a0the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD)<\/a>\u00a0of the Royal Thai Police has arrested 26 people in raids targeting two illegal online gambling sites, ramruy.net and pok9.com. Officers seized THB18m (US$499,000) in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 32-year-old Chinese national was accused of operating a site worth THB2.5bn (US$70m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13206,"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 arrested and deported a Chinese national, identified as Huang, for allegedly operating the illegal WANHE Football online gambling platform, valued at THB2.5bn (US$70m), from outside mainland China. Concurrently, the Royal Thai Police conducted raids on two other illegal gambling sites, seizing THB18m (US$499,000) and arresting 26 individuals, underscoring ongoing efforts to combat unlicensed iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"Huang, Zhonghe, WANHE Football, Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), Royal Thai Police, ramruy.net, pok9.com","focusai_location":"Thailand, China, Cambodia, Bangkok, Sathon district","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 (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement Efficacy?","query":"What specific international cooperation mechanisms facilitated Huang's deportation from Thailand to China, and how might this precedent impact future cross-border enforcement against illegal iGaming operators?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Impact?","query":"How do large-scale illegal operations like WANHE Football, with a reported value of US$70m, impact the GGR and NGR of licensed operators in regulated Asian markets, and what are the long-term implications for market integrity?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777013300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013300","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=777013300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013312,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013300\/revisions\/777013312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}