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Over 100 million baht assets seized in crackdown on gambling website

Over 100 million baht assets seized in crackdown on gambling website

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Three locations believed to be bases of online gambling website ‘Betflixgun’

The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) seized assets worth more than 100 million baht during a search at three locations in Greater Bangkok believed to be the bases of online gambling website “Betflixgun”.

In a press event on Saturday, CCIB chief Pol Lt Gen Trirong Phiewphan said officials investigated the website after public complaints and found it has a circulating revenue of around 20 million baht per month.

Trirong said that after obtaining arrest warrants on 12 people believed to be behind the gambling website, the CCIB arrested five Thai men suspected of being site administrators, plus another Thai man who was allegedly in charge of withdrawing cash from automated teller machines (ATMs) as part of the money-laundering process. 

Further investigations into the suspects led to searches at three locations in Greater Bangkok on Thursday, namely a house on Sanphawut Road in Bang Na district, a house in Soi Pattanakarn 38, Suan Luang district, and an apartment in Soi Ruamjit Pattana, Muang district of Samut Prakan province.

Trirong said that at these residences officials found more than 10 million baht in cash, several computers and laptops, mobile phones, bank passbooks and ATM cards suspected to be linked to the gambling website.

CCIB officials also confiscated other properties for further investigation, including a car, gold bars, gold amulets, jewellery, and closed-circuit TV cameras with an estimated value of more than 100 million baht.

Trirong said one of the suspects confessed to running the website for about five years, adding that the gang, which has a Thai leader, would change their addresses every two months to avoid authorities' detection. 

The CCIB chief added that from January 1 to February 20, the bureau made arrests in 635 cybercrime cases, 298 of which are related to online gambling. The CCIB also proposed blocking 9,394 URLs suspected of linking to illegal activities from November 2024 to January 2025.

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