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Online fraud scams shape as key focus for police
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/01/2018
» Online scams are among the key types of crime police will focus on this year while criminal databases are crucially important as a key tool to crack down on con artists.
Ex-police chief Somyot 'borrowed' B300m from brothel owner
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 06/02/2018
» Former national police chief Somyot Poompunmuang admitted Monday he had borrowed a huge sum of money from the fugitive owner of the Victoria's Secret Massage brothel, Kampol Wirathepsuporn.
Drug gangs use Thailand as transit point to Malaysia
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/02/2018
» Arecent major crackdown, in which 250 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine were intercepted while being smuggled on a train to the South, has underlined observations that Thailand has become a transit point for transnational drug smuggling.
'Sex gurus' in hot water with police
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/03/2018
» Thai police have vowed to take legal action against a group of 10 Russians and Belarusians who were arrested this week for allegedly running a training course in Pattaya to improve customers' sexual techniques.
Sex tours sites prompt clean-up
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/04/2018
» Police are looking into a sex tour scandal after a foreign report emerged claiming that companies are offering steamy vacations to Western travellers with particular emphasis being placed on resort destinations such as Pattaya and Phuket.
Cops bust short course visa scam
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/04/2018
» Police are zeroing in on foreign criminals who enrol at language schools to obtain education visas so they can live in Thailand and commit crime.
Karen arrested for B25m crayfish fraud
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/05/2018
» A Karen man who offered to make people rich by supplying them with cheap crayfish for profitable resale has been arrested and charged with defrauding his eager clients of 25 million baht.
Loss of innocence: Teens lure teens into sex work
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 11/06/2018
» The recent arrest of a 17-year-old girl who procured an underage girl for an Indian tourist in Pattaya highlighted the recent crackdown on prostitution and human trafficking rings whose perpetrators and victims are getting younger, according to police.
Axe gang members no petty criminals, arrests show
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/07/2018
» For some, the arrest of some members of the criminal group the "Axe Gang" might be just another minor case of street robbery in Bangkok.
Fraudsters adopt bitcoin to evade cops
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 13/08/2018
» Aarni Otava Saarimaa, a 22-year-old Finnish man, may know the tricks of the trade when it comes to cryptocurrencies, but the bitcoin millionaire was caught unaware when a group of Thai people approached him in June last year with a plan to scam a fortune from him.