Major Football Gambling Syndicate Unravelled in Pattaya

PATTAYA: -- Pattaya police swooping on a football gambling operation in South Pattaya on Saturday have unravelled a massive illegal gambling syndicate. The operation, believed to turnover in excess of Bt1 million was operating from a premise in South Pattaya’s Soi Daynight.

Pattaya, the 21st of August 2010: At approximately 8:30pm on Saturday, Lieutenant Colonel Arun Phornphan (Pattaya Tourism Police) conducted a team of officers in a raid on a known gambling operation in Soi Daynight (behind Tukcom), South Pattaya. Allegedly, officers had been investigating the movements of several members of the operation for sometime prior to Saturday’s raid.

During the raid, on what is known as the “Singto Daynight” business, officers arrested the business manager Mr. Sarawut Uttha [20], financial manager Mr. Hannarong Thongngam [32] and 4 customers/runners in the illegal operation.

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PATTAYA DAILY NEWS

2010-08-22

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