Govt Reveals New Bill for Cyber Crime Suppression

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by Paul Rujopakarn

BANGKOK (NNT) - The new draft law for cyber crimes suppression has been revealed, with an emphasis on the ability of financial institutions to suspend suspicious transactions.

 

Deputy Government Spokesperson Ratchada Thanadirek reviewed some of the details of the bill, which aims to protect citizens from scams using electronics or telecommunications technology. She underlined that the draft law particularly focuses on punishing those who allow scammers to use their bank accounts in their illicit activities.

 

The Royal Thai Police is currently tackling over 200,000 cases of cyber crimes.

 

Under the bill, people who help scammers open or use bank accounts and telephone numbers registered under their name to commit their crimes are subject to three years of imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 baht, or both.

 

Similarly, those who advertise or enable the act of opening, renting or selling bank accounts used in cyber crimes are subject to 2 to 5 years in prison or a fine of 200,000-500,000 baht, or both.

 

The same penalties are also applicable to those responsible for advertising or enabling the act of opening, renting or selling telephone numbers used in cyber crimes.

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230215111929276

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2023-02-15

 

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Think every police computer in the land has that blue button embedded on their keyboard and the governments probably has two one for each hand ????