Eighty-nine Thais were arrested during raids on call-centres operating frauds from Cambodia and will be repatriated to Thailand for legal proceedings, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas said yesterday.
Pol Gen Damrongsak, as director from the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT), was talking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He mentioned about 20 PERCENTAGE police had earlier been sent to Cambodia to coordinate along with local police within arresting Thais thought of being members associated with call-centre gangs operating from Cambodia. The particular gangs trick sufferers into believing these are in imminent danger and then promise to help them overcome this particular invented threat — for a price.
The PCT police were designated to five teams and helped lookup five different locations, armed with arrest justifies.
On June 21, the team raided the particular 12-storey Ching Cheng Hotel in Sihanoukville, a coastal town and the capital of Preah Sihanouk province, and arrested twenty one suspects. A group also raided Po Lai casino within Sihanoukville on the same day time.
On July 6, the team raided a spot at Pratu Daeng in Sihanoukville and arrested 18 suspects. One of them was Jirayu Poemchuen, an excellent suspect who claimed to be the superintendent of Laem Chabang police station in Chon Buri’s Si Racha district. The same day, a team raided another location in Sihanoukville and imprisoned 10 suspects.
On Come july 1st 7, in Poi Pet, opposite Thailand’s Aranyaprathet, team imprisoned 25 members of a gang which claimed falsely to be part of DHL express delivery company.
During the raid, the police found 15 some other Thai nationals interacting among the suspects. These were also detained with regard to questioning.