Following the murders early on Monday morning, the National Police Commissioner General Damrongsak Kittiprapas ordered senior officers from Royal Thai Police headquarters to assist the Provincial Police in Samut Prakan as well as the deployment of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD). 

 

Senior police officials are liaising with the Banker’s Association and financial institutions to streamline and synchronise response efforts to freeze bank accounts where money has been lost to online scammers, to track the money and to retrieve it.

 

They are still pursuing the money lost in this case after the murdered woman, Ms Wiphaporn reported the loss to her local police station in Samut Prakan last Friday. An expedited investigation has led Deputy National Police Chief General Surachate Hakparn to track the gang responsible for this case to Poipet in Cambodia on the border near Sa Kaeo Province.

Police in Samut Prakan and Bangkok are responding to the case of a scammer loan application which saw a 45-year-old housewife lose ฿1.7 million last week which was followed by her murder and that of her two young sons early on Monday morning in the Bang Phli district of the province.

 

The appalling tragedy has shocked Thailand and led to the involvement of senior officials at Royal Thai Police headquarters and the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) to track those responsible and improve the response to such cases. Six arrest warrants were issued on Tuesday, five for bank account holders linked to the scam and the sixth for Mr Sanich Dokmai, the 43-year-old man who is charged with the premeditated murder of his family just after midnight on Monday.

 

The Provincial Police Chief in Samut Prakan has revealed that the force has obtained six arrest warrants related to the tragic murder early on Monday morning of two young schoolboys and their mother at a family home in the province in the Bang Phli district.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/08/30/police-act-in-murder-case-linked-with-scam-samut-prakan-family/

 

-- Thai Examiner 2023-08-31

 

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“Big Joke” Heads to Cambodia to Bust Call Center Gang

 

 

BANGKOK, Aug 30 (TNA) – Deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn is set to travel to Cambodia in a crackdown on a call center gang linked to a murder of a victim family, committed by a husband.

Pol.Gen. Surachate disclosed that he will go to Canbodia tomorrow to cooperate with Cambodian police to arrest the call center gang, based in Cambodia. Today, a team of investigators has been dispatched to the neighbouring province.

 

The husband killed his wife and two sons before cutting his own throat in a suicide bid. His family members were dead but he was severely injured. It is believed that her husband was under extreme stress from previous debt and the loss of 1.7 million baht to the call center scam after his wife fell prey to the fraudulent scheme. It led him to murder his wife and two sons, aged 11, 13.

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1230808

 

-- TNA-MCOT 2023-08-31

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Pol.Gen. Surachate disclosed that he will go to Canbodia tomorrow to cooperate with Cambodian police to arrest the call center gang, based in Cambodia. Today,

Hopefully the Call gang are too busy scamming people to read the news, and have not disappeared.

It’s a sad fact but this is happening more and more

GO BJ GO - and sort them out.

It is good that someone in the RTP has decided that scams are a very serious business.

It is sad that it took three deaths and an attempted suicide to make them see the light.

RIP.