Pattaya Police arrest 4 Chinese running online lottery website from Thailand



PATTAYA: -- The Pattaya Police Chief announced on Wednesday the arrest of 4 Chinese who are facing gambling offences in relation to an online lottery website they were running from Thailand.

The 4 men were arrested during a raid of a house at the Pattaya Lagoon Village in South Pattaya. On the second floor they had set up an operations center where they would run an online lottery gambling site aimed at Chinese customers.

It appears the website generated income of 2 Million Baht per day and the money would be sent back to the site owner who is based in China.

This is the second such case in as many weeks, involving Asian gangs who are running gambling websites from Thailand due to anti-gambling laws which are more relaxed than their native countries.

Full story: http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/204430/pattaya-police-arrest-4-chinese-running-online-lottery-website-from-thailand/

-- Pattaya One 2015-07-23

Four Chinese men nabbed for running an online gambling service
The Nation

PATTAYA: -- Four Chinese men were arrested on Tuesday at a house they had rented in Chon Buri's Pattaya City for allegedly operating transnational online gambling and illegal lottery service, police said yesterday.

The four suspects, aged between 24 and 29, were presented at a press conference yesterday along with evidence including four computer notebooks, three portable data storage devices, five pages of alleged punters' names, four pages of lottery bets and two pages of commission fee details.

The den has reportedly been operating a month now, with transactions worth more than Bt2 million per day. Investigators said the profit was regularly sent back to the gang's bosses in China.

The men reportedly confessed to running the den in Thailand because the punishment here is less severe than in China.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Thailand-needs-9000-new-police-officers-Somyot-30265051.html

-- The Nation 2015-07-23