Chinese tourists busted for running illegal online gambling den in Pattaya

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Chinese tourists busted for running illegal online gambling den in Pattaya

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Nineteen Chinese tourists were arrested following a raid on two rooms at the CC Condominium in Pattaya just after midnight this morning. 

 

They were running an online gambling operation turning over 2 million Yuan or about 8 million baht a month.

 

The raid was led by Chonburi provincial police chief Maj-Gen Nanthachart Suphamongkhon in conjunction with tourist and immigration police.

 

Maj-Gen Nanthachart said that suspicions were aroused after a large number of tourists were spotted going into rooms 421/114 and 421/117.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Armed with a Pattaya court search warrant the authorities found the Chinese and a host of evidence in the form of computer notebooks, mobile phones and electronic accounts. 

 

In one room there were 14 men and 3 women taking bets while there were two people in another room. 

 

Nearly 200 phones were seized. 

 

All those arrested have been booked with working illegally. 

 

They were paid 10,000 Yuan or about 40,000 baht a month, reported Daily News. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[JimmyJ]

I wish the article named the website they were using.

 

They should have rented a house.

Edited September 4, 2019 by JimmyJ

[Emdog]

Have the Chinese thought about taking up bridge? Hmmm

[RichardColeman]

I do hope the toilet roll was for something else rather than them all sat working on computers on commodes !

[Vacuum]

9 minutes ago, Emdog said:

Have the Chinese thought about taking up bridge? Hmmm

To dangerous, not to mention darts....

[Beggar]

Why don't they do this in Sihanoukville? There they are used to Chinese gambling business. What makes Thailand so attractive for them? 

[Tony125]

They Gamble everywhere, In USA when I went to kung-<deleted> classes in Boston , MA we could look down on apartment across the street and see many peole playing  Mahjong for money. Later when casinos were opened in Conneticut you would see busloads of Chinese arrive and play.

[mikebell]

Why didn't Pattaya Plod raid the place?  

[ChipButty]

Building new jails for Chinese soon 

[Dexlowe]

6 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Why didn't Pattaya Plod raid the place?  

I believe they had every intention of doing so, but were waiting until the rooms were empty.

[NE1]

9 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Why didn't Pattaya Plod raid the place?  

What and risk somebody phoning the room and telling them a bust is on the way.

[Isaan sailor]

At least they weren’t Zero Baht tourists—in fact these quality ChiComs probably had 10’s of thousands of Baht.

[ronaldo0]

I bet he didn’t think he would get caught ! ????

[milesinnz]

2 hours ago, Beggar said:

Why don't they do this in Sihanoukville? There they are used to Chinese gambling business. What makes Thailand so attractive for them? 

ah, they were until Hun Sen closed them all down.. talk is 80,000 have left (could be a factor of ten out, who knows, but all the flights out are fully booked).. shops empty... it seems a lot and dramatic, but I am only repeating what I have read. Convoy of army/police traveling from PP, no one knows why..

Edited September 4, 2019 by milesinnz

[Beggar]

12 minutes ago, milesinnz said:

ah, they were until Hun Sen closed them all down.. talk is 80,000 have left (could be a factor of ten out, who knows, but all the flights out are fully booked).. shops empty... it seems a lot and dramatic, but I am only repeating what I have read. Convoy of army/police traveling from PP, no one knows why..

I see. Just checked with Google. Online gambling will not be allowed pretty soon anymore in Cambodia. 80,000 - must have been a very big business. At the same time they build new casinos like crazy. Better I don't think now why they don't care about them... 

[mikey00]

Hope they did their TM30's otherwise there'll be real trouble

[Tgcoll]

Chines are toping the crime now than others, Maybe u should ban them from..hhahaha,  for where u guys no fit

[ThePioneer]

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I do hope the toilet roll was for something else rather than them all sat working on computers on commodes !

 

 

Toilet roll????  Sure you mean tissue

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, webfact said:

They were running an online gambling operation turning over 2 million Yuan or about 8 million baht a month

I wonder if the fast track channel & free entry on arrival will continue?

[ChipButty]

9 hours ago, Tgcoll said:

Chines are toping the crime now than others, Maybe u should ban them from..hhahaha,  for where u guys no fit

What are you smoking?

[balo]

I still dont understand why they choose Pattaya/Chonburi to run their operation ?  They must have been misinformed ,so many Chinese gangs busted here the last 2 years. 


 

[a977]

Ah so more quality tourists spending their ill-gotten gains in China, how gullible is this Government anyway????????

[jackdd]

4 hours ago, balo said:

I still dont understand why they choose Pattaya/Chonburi to run their operation ?  They must have been misinformed ,so many Chinese gangs busted here the last 2 years.

I guess the employees are easily replaceable and finding somebody willing to work in Pattaya is easier than in nakhon nowhere.

[moontang]

Easiest jurisdiction to pay for visa...Corruption attracts the corrupt, but the Chinese and Russians need to learn proper brown envelope etiquette, or these raids will become a daily occurrence.