{"id":777014128,"date":"2024-03-20T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014128"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:53:07","slug":"300-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/300-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"300 arrested for illegal gambling in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in the Bang Yai raided a warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Thailand.-\u00a0Police have arrested\u00a0<strong>300 people <\/strong>for alleged illegal gambling at the Provincial Administration Department in Bang Yai district, Nonthaburi province. The operation took place last night (March 19) at a single-storey warehouse in the Bang Mae Nang sub-district. The alleged illegal casino operated behind a door with three layers of steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said there were several rooms with tables for baccarat, dice and other games divided into different zones for different levels of stakes. There were also three<strong> VIP rooms.<\/strong> Police said operators had installed over 60 closed-circuit television cameras to monitor activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plice seized gaming chips worth up to half a million baht (US$14,000) each with an estimated total value of 300m baht (US$8.3m), along with untaxed cards. According to The Thaiger, three bank accounts have been frozen. It is estimated that the illegal casino had daily transactions of around 100m baht (US$2.8m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-to-introduce-digital-lottery-ticket-sales\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thailand to introduce digital lottery ticket sales<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-18-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-online-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigration police arrested 18 Vietnamese nationals<\/a>&nbsp;in Bangkok for alleged involvement in operating online gambling websites from a residential property in the Rama 9 district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation is believed to have begun in November, using the first floor of the property for living and dining and the second floor for sleeping. The living room served as the central workspace, accommodating 10 computers manned by employees operating in shifts around the clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Bang Yai raided a warehouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777011924,"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 significant raids, arresting 300 individuals at an illegal land-based casino in Nonthaburi with estimated daily transactions of 100m baht and seizing 300m baht in chips. Concurrently, 18 Vietnamese nationals were arrested in Bangkok for operating illegal online gambling websites, highlighting the pervasive challenge of illicit gaming operations in Thailand.","focusai_entities":"Provincial Administration Department, The Thaiger","focusai_location":"Thailand, Bang Yai, Nonthaburi, Bang Mae Nang, Bangkok, Rama 9","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 (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Illegal Market GGR?","query":"Given the scale of these raids and reported daily transactions, what is the estimated Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) of Thailand's illicit gambling market, and how does this compare to potential regulated market projections?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact?","query":"How might these significant enforcement actions against both land-based and online illegal gambling influence the Thai government's current discussions regarding the potential liberalization or regulation of specific gaming verticals, such as the proposed digital lottery?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777014128","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\/777014128","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=777014128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014139,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014128\/revisions\/777014139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777011924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}