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Police net Thai mule account holders linked to Chinese scam gang
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/01/2026
» Thai police have busted a mule account gang working for a Chinese-led scam network and are seeking an Interpol Red Notice to arrest a Malaysian suspect who worked as a transnational cash courier.
Thai immigration refutes reports 11 South Koreans abducted
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/10/2025
» The Immigration Bureau has refuted reports by South Korean media that 11 South Korean nationals were abducted in Thailand, confirming that seven had already returned to South Korea and the four others never entered the kingdom.
72 arrested in raid on accounting firm using Thai nominees
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/03/2025
» Police arrested 51 Thais and 21 Chinese nationals from an accounting firm accused of establishing companies using Thai nominees for foreign businesses during a raid in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province on Wednesday.
Second Korean suspect in barrel-murder arrested
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/05/2024
» A second South Korean suspect in the murder of a man found dead in a concrete-filled barrel in a reservoir near Pattaya has been arrested in Phnom Penh and is being handed over to Korean authorities.
Mobile banking fraudsters targeted thousands at malls
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/04/2024
» Police arrested two Hong Kong men at Siam Paragon on Tuesday evening, saying they sent short messages with fraudulent links to steal money from mobile banking accounts of phone users at Bangkok shopping malls.
15 years' jail for police who extorted B10m from Chinese
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/02/2024
» Five immigration officers have been sentenced to 15 years in jail for extorting 10 million baht worth of cryptocurrency from a Chinese businessman found in illegal possession of a Thai ID card in March last year.
Police arrest Korean drug ringleader
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/01/2024
» A 29-year-old South Korean citizen who is believed to be the ringleader of a major drug trafficking network based in Thailand has been arrested in Bangkok's Ekkamai neighbourhood, according to the police on Thursday.
Free visa for tourists from China raises crime concerns
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/09/2023
» A free-visa travel privilege for Chinese visitors proposed by new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could lead to more transnational crime, according to the Immigration Bureau (IB).
Taiwanese held for smuggling drugs in drive shafts
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 19/08/2023
» Police arrested six Taiwanese men and a Thai woman in Bangkok and Samut Prakan on Friday for allegedly smuggling cannabis and crystal methamphetamine in truck drive shafts.
New arrest in immigration abduction-ransom case
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 28/03/2023
» Police have arrested a Thai man as an accessory in the alleged abduction and crypto-ransom by immigration police officers of a Chinese man and his Thai interpreter.