Gamblers, bookies and bet runners arrested

[Lite Beer]

Gamblers, bookies and bet runners arrested
The Sunday Nation

BANGKOK: -- As the FIFA World Cup draws to a close, police yesterday announced that from June 9 to July 3 they had arrested 3,771 gambling suspects - including 236 bookies and 110 bet-ticket runners while seizing Bt1.9 million in cash and almost Bt29 million in bet tickets.

National Police deputy chief General Aek Angsananon also announced that police had asked for the Information and Communication Technology Ministry to block 1,791 gambling websites. So far 1,227 websites have been blocked while the ministry is in the process of trying to block 564 more, he said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Gamblers-bookies-and-bet-runners-arrested-30237846.html

-- The Nation 2014-07-06

[NeverSure]

I guess that gamblers, bookies and bet runners are in a different class than loan sharks who are to get bailed out with government bank loans.

[noitom]

The Thais are after the bet runners and small time bookies. The loan sharks, Thai Mr. Big backers and Thai bankers get a pass. This is a big time small time petty arrest round up for show and tell.

[BangkokHank]

Gambling is immoral - unless the state is getting a cut.

[FredNL]

So far 1,227 websites have been blocked while the ministry is in the process of trying to block 564 more....

In Thailand they've never heard about VPN or proxy servers...

[Lite Beer]

3,700 arrested for football gambling

BANGKOK: -- Police arrested 3,771 people in almost a month allegedly for being involved in World Cup football gambling in Thailand.

Deputy police chief Aek Angsananont said on Saturday (July 5) that the people had been arrested from June 9 to July 3. They include 236 bankers, 3,413 gamblers and 110 bet brokers.

Besides, police seized from them about B1.9 million in cash and records of bets worth about B28 million.

Pol Gen Aek also said that the police reported 1,791 football gambling websites to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and 1,227 of them were closed. He promised that the suppression would expand to gambling relating to football leagues after the World Cup ended.

-- Phuket News 2014-07-06

[Local Drunk]

Pointless...

[daoyai]

The govt. needs to protect it's gambling monopoly so just be good and buy lottery.

[PiPiFFS]

Just down the road from my room here on Tao is an Italian restaurant which has a big sign outside inviting people to come watch the football and BET with us here

Go figure

[iReason]

Never will they stop Thai's from gambling.

They gamble on everything.

Instead of working hard, the gamblers are looking for the pie in the sky easy (lazy) way out.

[Pib]

...while seizing Bt1.9 million in cash and almost Bt29 million in bet tickets.

I wonder if the police cash-in any winning bet tickets.

[sydneyjed]

Busted the same place now twice in Pattaya in the space of a few months for illegal SP betting on horse racing streamed direct in from Australia on a Saturday..(Twice)which tells you the story doesn't it?Both 'pre army coup'as well!

[robert888d]

_{Surely buying tickets for the lottery is GAMBLING. Why is that permitted ?}

[KKr]

[KKr]

a lottery is predictable, controlled by notaries, and fair.

the outcome of betting is unpredictable.

(and can be rigged, if it is not the World Championships that is)

[globalmedia8]

and ladbrokes website has been fully thai for years