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New plan to secure gold shops
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/02/2026
» The police have pledged to step up security measures in a bid to prevent robberies at gold shops across the capital, as surging prices in recent weeks resulted in increased interest from criminals.
‘Mr Spray’ arrested after Koh Phangan graffiti frenzy
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/02/2026
» A German man who became the target of public outrage after spray-painting political messages at dozens of locations on Koh Phangan has been arrested in Bangkok.
Call-centre gangs shift to using corporate accounts
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/01/2026
» The Anti-Online Scam Centre (ACSC) has uncovered a new operational model used by call-centre gangs, which have shifted from using individual mule accounts to corporate "mule accounts" to defraud victims, evade scrutiny, and launder larger sums of money, police said.
'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.
Briton, five Thai women arrested for investment scam
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/01/2026
» A British man and five Thai women have been arrested for allegedly luring more than 400 Thai and foreign victims — many of them retirees in Pattaya — into an investment scam with promises of exorbitant stock trading returns.
Thai woman in child prostitution case extradited from Taiwan
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/12/2025
» Police on Tuesday arrested a Thai woman accused of forcing her 12-year-old daughter into prostitution in Japan, after she was extradited from Taiwan.
'Grey capital' rears its head
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/12/2025
» In recent weeks, photographs showing controversial foreign businessman Benjamin Mauerberger, also known as Ben Smith, and Yim Leak with several Thai politicians have gone viral, sparking questions about possible links to so-called grey capital networks.
Thai and Chinese authorities view destroyed scam buildings in Myanmar
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/12/2025
» Thai and Chinese authorities crossed the border from Thailand’s Tak province to Myawaddy of Myanmar to view the debris of scam centres on Monday.
Activist gets suspended sentence, fine
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/12/2025
» The activist Atchariya Ruengrattanapong has been handed a year in jail in a defamation case, with the sentence suspended for two years.
Police to question rapper as actress wife faces fraud charges
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/12/2025
» Police will question rapper Prinya "Way Thaitanium" Intachai on Thursday to determine whether he will face charges or be treated as a witness in the expanding fraud probe linked to his wife, actress Rybena "Nana" Intachai.