Taiwanese-run call centre gang cracked: Chiang Rai

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Taiwanese-run call centre gang cracked



CHIANG RAI: -- A combined force of soldiers, police and immigration officials yesterday cracked a Taiwanese-run call centre in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai and arrested 48 Taiwanese on fraud charges.

The arrest of these Taiwanese came from complaints that the gang operated a call centre near the Thai Myanmar border to deceive victims in China.

They would make calls to indebted victims in China claiming they were state officials and threatened to take legal actions if the refused to pay them by transferring money into the accounts of the gang.

The raid at the call centre office in Mae Said netted 32 Chinese and Taiwanese, both men and women, and subsequent searches at their lodgings in Mae Sai also found another 16 suspects.

They were all detained in Mae Sai pending investigation and expansion to arrest more collaborators, police said.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/taiwanese-run-call-centre-gang-cracked/


-- Thai PBS 2014-06-17

[wvavin]

Should play host to them at "Bangkok Hilton" so they will enjoy a real taste of Thailand.

[wabothai]

Indeed Bangkok Hilton a nice place for life. Or back to China to face death penalty.

[laobali]

One wonders how long a group of Chinese living/operating in that area of Thailand went unnoticed.

[gigman]

One wonders how long a group of Chinese living/operating in that area of Thailand went unnoticed.

I do not think it was unnoticed ...Rather some police realized it is time to show now that they are "working in the right direction" to keep their positions in new Thailand scenario....

Good job general.

[bander]

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One wonders how long a group of Chinese living/operating in that area of Thailand went unnoticed.

Probably many years, until the army start to clean up what police didn't want to. If you have a problem, don't call the police, they are the problem. Call the army instead :-)

[wileycoyote]

Well saves too many rogue calls

[belg]

would it not be cheaper to do this within china ? why go to thailand or whatever ?

[mmcsusnret]

Indeed Bangkok Hilton a nice place for life. Or back to China to face death penalty.

The arrested "gang" is from Taiwan, Republic of China vice China, People's Democratic Republic of China which has the harsh punishments. They were scamming the mainlanders.

[Dublin]

Is it me !! or does it really look like Thai Police are their upping there game a little,

[The Deerhunter]

Is it me !! or does it really look like Thai Police are their upping there game a little,

No it's not just you. So, why are they upping their game just now? (Rhetorical question) A group of how many chinese runing a scam business here and no-one knew? Yeah Right. The general srtrikes again. These discoveries are going to go on & on. And still no police groups doing the "safety & rego" checks on highway 311 at all the usual places every day, since martial law started. How is the boss going to pay for his Merc and there must be a lot of meer noi's being told " Mai em ngung."

[Beng]

Should play host to them at "Bangkok Hilton" so they will enjoy a real taste of Thailand.

Hopefully for a long time and then deported.

[BanTamo]

One wonders how long a group of Chinese living/operating in that area of Thailand went in noticed.

"The story of the Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang or KMT) forces entrenched in Shan State of Burma and northern Thailand from the 1950s to 1980s is a complex and controversial history that involved Taiwan (the Republic of China), China (the People's Republic of China), Burma, the United States and Thailand and highlighted the confrontation between the Communist and Democratic blocks in the region during the cold war period."

All sides practiced the fine art of overlooking a group of KMT guerilla forces on both sides of the Burmese border at the Shan States for well over 30 years. Its a riveting story of Cold War cynicism and duplicitous behavior.

Below is a link to a review of the latest scholarship on this relatively unknown issue.

http://www.harvard-yenching.org/features/tragic-history-kmt-troops-golden-triangle-1950-1981

Edited June 19, 2014 by BanTamo