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'Mule' accounts proliferate
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/01/2026
» The term "mule account" -- once obscure, now widely recognised -- has become synonymous with financial crime in Thailand.
Police raid Chinese-owned company with Thai nominees
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/06/2025
» A Chinese man and two Thai women were arrested when police raided three premises occupied by a Chinese-run heavy machinery leasing company accused of using Thai nominees that has generated revenue exceeding 500 million baht.
Four nabbed over 'mule' bank accounts
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/08/2024
» Four people have been arrested for setting up companies and bank accounts that were used to funnel the proceeds of an investment scam that caused over 70 million baht in losses, the Cyber Crime Investigation Division 5 (CCID5) said yesterday.
Police arrest 13 fake pharmacists
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/08/2023
» Thirteen bogus pharmacists have been arrested in police raids across Bangkok, during which cough syrup was found to have been sold illegally to make the popular “4x100” drug cocktail.
Abbot's aide gets 10-year stretch for B200m fraud
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/03/2023
» The Criminal Court on Tuesday handed down a 10-year jail sentence to Apirat Jayankura Na Ayudhya, a close aide of the late abbot of Wat Bowon Niwet, for forgery to embezzle 80 million baht from the temple's accounts.
Stock manipulator on US wanted list arrested in Phuket
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/01/2023
» A 54-year-old man wanted by the United States for stock manipulation and colluding in fraud has been arrested in Thalang district of Phuket province.
Stores found overselling cough syrup
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/10/2022
» Police have raided a network of drug stores and arrested 20 staff for selling illegal amounts of cough syrup to adolescents to make a so-called "4x100" drug cocktail.
Drug stores sold large amounts of cough syrup for drug cocktail
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/10/2022
» Police have raided a network of drug stores and arrested 20 employees for selling illegal amounts of cough syrup to adolescents for making a drug cocktail known as 4x100.
Forensics help ID pair buried in concrete
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/08/2022
» Forensic science proved invaluable in helping police identify the bodies of two murdered foreigners found buried in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Chok Chai district last month.
'Robin Hood: Man in underpants'
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/07/2022
» Police recently arrested a serial phone thief who targeted branches of the Banana IT store chain in many provinces. CCTV footage caused interest in the felon to surge as in each case it showed a man wearing nothing but underpants committing the crime.