PUBLISHED: 19 Feb 2025 at 04: 00
Three Chinese defendants were detained yesterday for running Luckking Co, a business that enticed customers to enter lucky draws and therefore accessed their personal information.
The Metropolitan Police Bureau’s assistant director, Pol Maj Gen Theeradet Thumsuthee, stated that the business had its headquarters in the Sermsub Building on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang city. It stole money and personal information from around 88, 000 individuals, subsequently sold the info to call fraud groups, Pol Maj Gen Theeradet said.
He named two of the Foreign offenders as Ye Wanyou, 29, and Li Weijie, 30. On February 5, both were detained at a walled enclosure complex close to Ratchadaphisek Road.
According to Pol Maj Gen Theeradet, they were suspected of operating a telephone fraud group in Poipet, Cambodia, and smuggling citizens out of Thailand through Tak’s Mae Sot area. Zhang Hongxiang, the second suspect, was named. He was detained monday at the Sermsub Building.
Meanwhile, the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ) said yesterday that six Thais– four women and two men– and four Chinese men were arrested during operations against a Chinese-run investment scam gang in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Prachin Buri, Sa Kaeo, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Samut Songkhram that began last week and continued into Monday.
The arrested defendants were identified as Atchara, 27, Porntip, 44, Nopawit, 31, Chonlathee, 21, Pantharee, 26, Supawadee, 39, Gao, 35, Xiong, 30, Mao, 46 and Zhou, 44.
They were charged with open scams, computer violence, money laundering and unlawful council.
They were one of 32 offenders in the case, according to CIB director Pol Lt. Gen. Jirabhop Bhuridej’s statement from yesterday. The group comprised 10 Thai masters of animal accounts, two Chinese phone scammers and 20 others who were suspected of wealth laundering– 14 Chinese, five Koreans and one Thai.
According to Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop, the crew dragged patients away from them through social press by first putting forth virtual projects that require tapping “likes.” Once they had made the necessary investment and had been promised results of 30 to 50 %, they were invited to do so. They initially received the profits before being told they had nothing more to say. According to the authorities, the group had Thai proxies who owned the properties and who had set up about 10 top companies.