"Pol. Lt. Gen. Jirapop" announced the results of the arrest of the Chinese Tao gang. Exterminating everyone from horse account openers to bosses. Assets valued at more than 1,000 million baht were seized.
Police Lieutenant General Jiraphop Phuridej, Commander-in-Chief of the Central Investigation Bureau Announcing the results of the arrest of 2 cases. In the first case, the Royal Thai Police, along with the Attorney General's Office and AMLO, searched 30 locations in the provinces of Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Chonburi, and Udon Thani, dismantling a transnational criminal organization (Hybrid Crime Suppression Division). gang) from the level of the network leader who is responsible for controlling and commanding the operations center of the call center gang. to the horse accountant The mercenary opens a horse account. And the person in charge of money laundering, according to the arrest warrant, 14 people, a total of 9 suspects were arrested, including 2 Chinese and 7 Thai people.
This is due to the fact that in 2022, there were victims who were used by a group of criminals to pretend to be a good-looking young woman who came to talk and befriend them on Facebook. until the injured person trusts Then invite them to invest in digital currency. Read a website called CBOEX, which is an application that was completely faked by a gang of criminals. This makes it similar to the original CBOE application, which has now closed. The thief will advise the victim to sign up for an account with a Thai cryptocurrency trading platform to create a digital wallet. Go buy USDT digital coins through the said platform. The criminal then tricks the victim into transferring digital coins into the criminal's digital coin wallet. The amount of investment profits was reported to the victims. The more you are fooled into transferring more money to invest. Total damages were more than 13 million baht.
From examining the financial path and the path of the victim's digital coins, it was found that There were transfers from victims' wallets to more than 20 private digital coin wallets to evade detection. before transferring it to the criminal's digital coin wallet Then sold and exchanged for Thai baht. It was found that in 2022 this criminal gang was selling digital coins obtained by defrauding victims both domestically and abroad. There is more than 1 billion baht in circulation. As for the pattern of crimes, it was found that they were carried out in groups. The division of duties is at the command level. Call center group contacts to talk about deceiving victims Horse accounting brokerage group and horse digital wallet Group for hire to open a horse account and horse digital wallet and groups that launder money By using the money to buy valuable assets. and various real estate
Police Lieutenant General Jiraphop revealed that the expansion of the arrests in this case is considered one of the first cases. that can root out everything from horse account openers to bosses at the command level A large amount of assets can be frozen. which is from expanding the results of checking the information of the nominee company and Thai people who are nominees that were related to the gang of criminals found There were possessions of 17 luxury homes, 12 luxury cars, more than 6 million baht in cash, more than 10 items of gold jewelry, luxury watches, brand name bags, computers, mobile phones. and several bank accounts A total value of more than 1,000 million baht. After an initial investigation, 15 luxury houses and other common items were seized. It was seized and sent to the AMLO for further investigation in order to seize the property. There are still five suspects still at large. and will further expand the issue of arrest warrants for additional suspects involved.
One of the main suspects is Kiki, a famous sexy model. She opened a horse account and a horse wallet and transferred money out of the account. before forwarding it to a money laundering company The important person who acts as the chief mastermind is a Chinese national and currently has bases of operations in 3 neighboring countries. The Chinese authorities have already issued an arrest warrant. This is because Chinese people have reported being scammed by this group of Call Center gangs and persuaded them to invest in digital currencies. Billions of yuan were lost, totaling more than 1,300 cases. Thai police will cooperate with Chinese police, Burmese, Lao and Cambodian authorities to track down the victims. and arrested for further prosecution.
As for the second case, the Crime Suppression Division police arrested Ms. Phapimol, age 20, Ms. Parichat, age 28, and Ms. Doki, age 19, of Myanmar nationality. which brokers the child sex trade In addition, another group of 5 customers who purchased services were arrested after the police received a tip that a Twitter account user named Buble was posting advertisements inviting prostitution of youths under 18 years of age in Rayong province. So he had a secret agent disguise himself and contact the user of the Twitter account to purchase sexual services through the LINE application. The user of the Twitter account sent pictures of young women to choose from. Then contact and lure someone to buy by transferring money to the accused. Using a money transfer horse account to evade arrest who was later able to help a 15-year-old girl who was lured into prostitution
From gathering evidence, it was found that Ms. Phapimon and Ms. Parichat Being a child prostitution broker So he asked the court to approve the arrest warrant. and was later arrested The accused confessed that Get a commission for finding customers for children 500 baht per time, doing it for more than 2 months. There are also 2 other girls under the affiliation, aged 14 and 16 years old. Accepting each job will be contacted through another broker, Ms. Doki, therefore gathering evidence from the court to approve the arrest warrant. and was later arrested .
Source: Thai News Agency