Court rejects call to shut down Mungkornfa platform amid lottery overpricing

[snoop1130]

 

The Criminal Court dismissed a petition from the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) today (Thursday) seeking to shut down websites run by the Mungkornfa online lottery platform, amid the government’s crackdown on overpriced lottery tickets.

 

Mungkornfa (Blue Dragon) has been accused of defrauding the public, and selling overpriced lottery tickets, among other issues.

 

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The court ruled, however, that the company’s role is to collect lottery tickets from different sources and to serve as a channel through which the lottery tickets are sold by the vendors to customers and that it had nothing to do with setting the prices of the tickets.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/court-rejects-call-to-shut-down-mungkornfa-platform-amid-lottery-overpricing/

 

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[law ling]

From the linked article:

 

"the sale of the tickets between some 4,000 vendors, each of whom has a quota of 500 tickets per draw, and customers in exchange for a service fee of five baht per ticket."

 

So, if the 4,000 vendors each took 500 tickets, at B5 per ticket, that's B10 million - each draw. A nice river-of-gold for the middle-man here.

 

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The court ruled, however, that the company’s role is to collect lottery tickets from different sources and to serve as a channel through which the lottery tickets are sold by the vendors to customers and that it had nothing to do with setting the prices of the tickets.

State sponsored corruption continues unabated.

[rwill]

We will fix lottery overpricing.  Or not.