{"id":777042956,"date":"2026-06-01T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777042956"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:07:54","slug":"thailand-blocks-more-than-717000-gambling-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-blocks-more-than-717000-gambling-urls","title":{"rendered":"Thailand blocks more than 717,000 gambling URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police now intend to focus on football betting ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Thailand.- The Royal Thai Police say they blocked 717,425 URLs linked to gambling between October 1, 2025 and May 20, 2026<\/strong>. According to Trairong Piwpan<\/strong>, deputy director of the Technology Crime Suppression Centre and spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, the blocks followed an order for a nationwide crackdown on all forms of online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trairong said authorities are paying particular attention to football betting ahead of the World Cup. He said police are using artificial intelligence <\/strong>to detect gambling-related content more quickly and accurately, allowing faster action against websites and social media accounts promoting betting. Police have identified 309 online gambling websites as priority targets for enforcement actions during May and June. Arrest warrants have been issued, and some suspects have already been detained, while investigations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the police spokesman, illegal gambling operators have increasingly shifted from traditional mule accounts to more sophisticated financial channels, including corporate accounts, digital payment services, cross-border intermediaries and cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Thai cyber police arrest five in operation against alleged online gambling network<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police now intend to focus on football betting ahead of the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777028000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Royal Thai Police have intensified their nationwide crackdown on online gambling, blocking over 717,000 URLs and prioritizing enforcement against 309 websites, particularly focusing on football betting ahead of the World Cup. Authorities are leveraging AI for enhanced detection and are targeting sophisticated financial channels, including corporate accounts and cryptocurrencies, used by illegal operators.","focusai_entities":"Royal Thai Police, Trairong Piwpan, Technology Crime Suppression Centre","focusai_location":"Thailand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AI Enforcement Impact","query":"What specific advancements in AI detection capabilities are enabling the Royal Thai Police to identify and block illegal gambling content and operators more effectively, and what are the implications for platform security and content moderation strategies?"},{"label":"Financial Channel Risks","query":"How are illegal gambling operators leveraging sophisticated financial channels, including corporate accounts, digital payment services, and cryptocurrencies, to circumvent traditional AML\/KYC controls, and what countermeasures are financial institutions and payment providers implementing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[25174,24634,342,25249],"class_list":["post-777042956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-crackdown","tag-illegal-online-gambling","tag-thailand","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042956","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777042956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777042979,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042956\/revisions\/777042979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777042956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777042956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777042956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}