NAKHON SAWAN: A man and two females were arrested intended for allegedly selling digital lottery tickets from inflated prices, even though the Government Lottery Office introduced the structure to end the overpricing of tickets.
Thitirat Nakchaiwatana, 45, his sweetheart and his younger sibling were arrested regarding offering 13 federal government lottery tickets, with three numbers, at 100 baht each, assistant police chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn said at Nakhon Sawan police headquarters on Thursday.
The legal price is 80 baht.
The suspects live in Takhli district. The women’s names were not launched.
The GLO has been selling millions of lottery tickets online for each draw since last month to combat the scourge of vendors selling actual physical tickets at the inflated price of 100 baht and often more.
Pol Lt Gen Surachate said the three people bought 13 tickets online from the GLO at 80 baht each and agreed to resell them at 100 baht every via the Facebook account of Mr Thitirat. Photos of the seat tickets, for the June sixteen draw, were published on the account.
“They violated the law by offering lottery tickets in a inflated price and buyers risked being cheated because they did not have the legal right of possessing the seat tickets, ” Pol Lt Gen Surachate stated.