Thai police search for gambling ring boss

Thai Police are looking for the boss of an online gambling operation after eight Koreans were caught last week running a gambling site that was generating nearly $3,000 per day out of an apartment in Phuket.

The arrests follow a report in March from police in Bangkok about the gambling racket, Phuket Provincial Police Commander Patchara Boonyasit told the Phuket Gazette.

“After months of collecting evidence and monitoring the suspects’ activities, we tracked them down to a rental room at Eva Town in Wichit, which they were using as an office,” Maj Gen Patchara was quoted as saying.

Police said the suspects had been in Thailand for three months on tourist visas. 

“In the apartment, we found more than 60 Korean bank books with more than 100 million baht in assets, 60,000 baht in cash, mobile phones, laptops, computers, flash drives, an iPad and other devices and items needed to run the operation,” said Gen Patchara. 

The suspects told police that they were only employees, and that someone else had created the website, said Gen Patchara.

 

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