21 arrested in raids on suspected gambling dens in Bangkok

By THE NATION

 

 

Twenty-one people have been arrested on charges of gambling following raids on five suspected venues in Bangkok.

 

“On January 8-9, officials investigated five locations in Bangkok suspected of running gambling operations,” Pol Maj-General Jiraphop Phuridet, deputy chief of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB), said on Sunday.

 

“This operation is a part of the National Police chief’s policy to eliminate gambling dens nationwide to reduce the risk of Covid-19 spreading among the public.”

 

The five suspected gambling dens that were raided are:

 

1. An unnamed car care centre in Soi Sirithorn 1 in Bang Plad district. Officials arrested four suspects who were playing a card game and confiscated a deck of cards and some cash.

 

2. A building on Nakhon Chaisri Road in Dusit district. Officials found several gambling equipment including cards, dice, plastic chips, and cash but no gamblers.

 

3. A house near Tesco Lotus Rama I in Pathumwan district. Officials arrested four suspects who were allegedly playing high-low bets via mobile application. The mobile telephones and some cash were confiscated.

 

4. A rental room in Khlong Kwang community in Yannawa district. Officials arrested four suspects for allegedly playing a card game and confiscated a deck of cards and some cash.

 

5. A house in Soi Rimthangrotfai 3 in Thonburi district. Officials have arrested nine suspects who were playing high-low bets via mobile application and confiscated mobile telephones and some cash.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30401035

 

 

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This must be fake news, as dear Ole Prawit says there are no gambling dens in Bangkok.

Now as he is a deputy PM, he must be speaking the truth.

I see they are going after the "low hanging fruit", probably because the larger gambling dens are controlled by influential people and the BIB.

How long before we see a group of bridge playing pensioners busted?

Four people having a game of cards thats serious <deleted> that is

These places are all backyard type events and venues...people playing cards..betting on cell phones....even the people behind me have card games every day!

The professional gambling set-ups, casinos, probably won't make headlines for a while...these places make too much money to be shut down....PM probes or not.

21 hours ago, colinneil said:

This must be fake news, as dear Ole Prawit says there are no gambling dens in Bangkok.

Now as he is a deputy PM, he must be speaking the truth.

I think his pants are on fire!

23 hours ago, webfact said:

1. An unnamed car care centre

2. A building on Nakhon Chaisri Road 

3. A house

4. A rental room

5. A house

6. A condo room in Bangkok. SWAT officers have arrested one foreigner playing Solitaire on his Windows 10 PC.

I see we are being refocussed away from slave labour from Myanmar organised by the police and towards gambling dens (coincidentally also organised by the police).

3 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

6. A condo room in Bangkok. SWAT officers have arrested one foreigner playing Solitaire on his Windows 10 PC.

But they left the man standing at the corner with his table playing 3 card Monte with the crowd surrounding him, and betting.  

On 1/11/2021 at 10:56 AM, ChipButty said:

Four people having a game of cards thats serious <deleted> that is

My thought as well - a gambling den???? This is what I call a gambling den:-

 

No 2 must have got the "tip off"

Remind me to lock my 2 packs of cards in the safe before someone sees them.

Any idea until business as usual ?

Jabba the Hutt said there was no gambling dens in Bangkok so this is clearly fake news.

There was a thread running recently (can’t find it now) from a guy who wanted to ‘grass someone up’ to the police... 

 

Is this the result ???? 

Closing gambling dens is like playing whack a mole.

 

So long as there are brown envelopes for those in brown they will continue to pop up.