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Japan agrees to help tackle phone scams
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/09/2025
» Osaka: Thai police will work with their counterparts in Japan to crack down on international call scammer gangs operating in the region, drawing on advanced technology and other advances to keep up with online crime.
Ex-yakuza arrested for scam links
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 21/03/2025
» A Japanese man believed to run call-centre scam gangs in Cambodia and Vietnam has been arrested for a string of crimes in his home country following a police raid on a rented house in Bangkok.
Japanese scam gang boss collared at Bangkok airport
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/01/2025
» One more Japanese man who is believed to be a former member of the yakuza has been arrested in connection with a busted call centre gang in Thailand, the Immigration Bureau said on Wednesday.
Two 'yakuza' caught in Laos
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 07/06/2024
» Two Japanese men with possible links to the yakuza, who are prime suspects in the murder and dismemberment of their compatriot whose remains were found in Nonthaburi province in April, were caught in Laos on Thursday.
Yakuza suspected of dismembering countryman
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/04/2024
» Two Japanese men are prime suspects in the murder and dismemberment of their compatriots whose remains were found in Nonthaburi province last week.
US drugs trio face charges at home too
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/04/2022
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) officials are seeking help from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to prosecute three Thai nationals under Thai law for their suspected involvement in a Yakuza alleged to have acquired weaponry for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
US nabs 'yakuza chief', 3 Thais buying weapons for rebels
News, AFP and Bangkok Post, Published on 09/04/2022
» United States authorities said on Thursday they had arrested a Japanese organised crime leader and three Thai men who were trafficking heroin and methamphetamine while also trying to acquire weaponry for rebel groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Suspected Yakuza gold thief caught
News, Post Reporters, Published on 09/03/2022
» A Japanese man was arrested yesterday for allegedly snatching 65 baht-weight of gold (975 grammes) worth about 2 million baht while trading with a victim in a gold shop in Bangkok's Phra Nakhon district.
Ex-Yakuza cuffed for medical glove fraud
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/11/2021
» A Japanese man said to be a former Yakuza gangster, was arrested twice over the past week on suspicion of rubber glove fraud reportedly worth 286 million baht.
Cop sweep nets Yakuza, undocumented migrants
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/07/2019
» Police have arrested a Yakuza gangster for alleged extortion in Thailand, a Chinese man for a 10-million-baht scam in China and 48 Pakistanis travelling without valid passports.