Football-gambling ‘pretties’ issued second summonses after failing to appear

[snoop1130]

Football-gambling ‘pretties’ issued second summonses after failing to appear

By Jessada Chantharak 
The Nation

 

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Police have issued second summonses for four “pretties” who were accused of posting statements to social media in attempt to persuade public members to engage in soccer betting.

 

The gambling promoters are being called in to testify and hear a charge, and failure to show up will result in arrest warrants being issued for them, Metropolitan police deputy commissioner Pol Maj-General Panurat Lakboon said on Tuesday.

 

Panurat reported that from June 14 until July 9 Bangkok police had arrested one bookie, 2,434 punters and eight ticket runners involved in physically gambling on football match results. For online football gambling during the same period, police arrested 39 bookies, 48 punters and 33 pretties or gambling promoters. Eleven of the 33 promoters had each been sentenced by a court to a one-year suspended jail term and a Bt1,000 fine for the offence of advertising to encourage gambling.

 

Punurat was speaking in his capacity as director of the city’s football-gambling suppression centre for the period of the Fifa World Cup 2018 tournament running until July 15.

 

The operations have also led to the confiscation of Bt65,000 in cash, betting tickets worth Bt722,410 and 51 bank accounts showing a sum of Bt882,789.23, he added.

 

He said that police have summoned a total of 37 pretties to hear the charge – of which 33 had appeared, while the remaining four had ignored their summonses. Police will now issue a second summons to them, with arrest warrants then being issued if the gambling promoters again fail to respond, he said.

 

The 37 pretties were among some 100 identified by police as offenders, and the remainder would be summoned eventually, Punurat added.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30349755

 

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[JemJem]

Why not legalise the football-betting, man ?!

 

There is a huge interest in it in Thailand; and the government can make decent money from it via taxes etc.

 

It could start small (as sort of a trial); for example, initially only allowing betting on European matches.

 

 

[kingstonkid]

The problem with legalizing gambling is that like a lot of people Thailand is not capable of doing it responsibly.  Thais already have troubles with money and booze.  Imagine how many Thais would literally bet the family and farm.

 

People have to have maturity to gamble responsibly. Thai men especially do not have that.

 

My solution would be an upscale casino where you have to have a foreign passport for entrance.  That would be a good starting point.

[stud858]

I wish they would summons people who don't pay their condo fees.  Blatant theft and it's all good.  You have to choose your crime in Thailand carefully.  For example,  slave ownership,  meh, kill someone,  meh meh, gambling, no no.

Peace to all you kind people.

[PatOngo]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Football-gambling ‘pretties’ issued second summonses after failing to appear

Considering "Big Jokes" track record, I would have thought he'd have them handcuffed before breakfast!

[Darcula]

It's time to handover this case to SoiDog the Booty Hunter.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 2018 by Darcula

[BobbyL]

Thai men would lose their mind if betting became legal here. 

[Ulic]

I just want to see the pictures of the "pretties" that caused them to be charged.

[stanleycoin]

11 hours ago, BobbyL said:

Thai men would lose their mind if betting became legal here. 

Impossible for that to happen.  

[connda]

Send the models to jail and ignore the bookies.  That would be the Thai way.

That's like sending advertising models working for Volkswagen to jail and letting the executives jigging the emissions data go free.  It's about the same mindset.

Edited July 13, 2018 by connda