12 Arrested For Operating Internet-based Betting Business

[george]

12 arrested for operating Internet-based betting business

BANGKOK: -- Police Tuesday morning raided a building opposite from the Crime Suppression Division head office and arrested 12 persons for allegedly operating betting on baccarat games via Internet.

The twelve opened their office on the 12th floor of the Ros Tower II Building on Soi Phaholyothin 19 opposite from the CSD head office.

-- The Nation 2006-11-21

[Oleg_Rus]

12 arrested for operating Internet-based betting business

BANGKOK: -- Police Tuesday morning raided a building opposite from the Crime Suppression Division head office and arrested 12 persons for allegedly operating betting on baccarat games via Internet.

The twelve opened their office on the 12th floor of the Ros Tower II Building on Soi Phaholyothin 19 opposite from the CSD head office.

-- The Nation 2006-11-21

12 persons ? again ? And it was 13th, who betrayed them, right ?

but, last football season there were huge money moves over Internet bookies, I heard about 10s of millions baht...

[leisurely]

I have to say it is one of the many things I can't understand about Thailand. You are allowed to watch two cockerels gouge each other, but can't bet on the outcome?

[Berty]

At the Pleonchit Fair the other day there was some rampant gambling going on in the Crazy Bingo area. My missus won a blender, nearly 10K in cash, and other assorted goodies. I think she probably dropped around 10K on tickets so came out about even.

[kmart]

I have to say it is one of the many things I can't understand about Thailand. You are allowed to watch two cockerels gouge each other, but can't bet on the outcome?

Thais go over the border to drop millions daily on the tables of casinos next door in Cambodia and Burma. Same with soccer gambling; card dens; etc; etc.

If this was somehow regulated and legalised, Thailand would save billions yearly; but the illegal status quo is maintained, so this money ends up in the "grey economy" of LOS.

The "Guns, Gambling and Ganja" book by Pasuk Phongpaichit is a good account of how the parallel economy works in Thailand.

Edited November 21, 2006 by kmart

[rafval]

a lady I know lost 60,000b in the casino at nana, shes good friends with all the cops that go there tho

[London Crocodile]

The "Guns, Gambling and Ganja" book by Pasuk Phongpaichit is a good account of how the parallel economy works in Thailand.

Guns, Girls, Gambling and Ganja is such a laborious read it is just not worth the effort.

[astral]

Any bets on what the punishment will be??

Outside LOS, of course.

[goodness]

you are allowed to gamble in the grounds of the 2 horse racing grounds in bkk.

they alternate each sunday for those who like a flutter