A suspected crucial member of a contact centre gang continues to be extradited from Albania to stand demo in Thailand, said the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG).
Prayuth Petchkhun, the OAG’s deputy speaker, said yesterday the handover of Tzu Yuan Kuo, the Taiwanese national, proceeded smoothly.
The suspect had been escorted by Thai prosecutors to Asia and he arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday early morning, he said.
Mr Kuo is believed to be the particular second-in-command of a Dubai-based gang which apparently made VoIP (voice-over-IP) calls to fool victims in various Asian countries including Thailand.
While posing as affiliated with a govt agency, the scammers would contact the particular victims, claiming their own bank accounts were connected to an ongoing narcotics case, before offering to help with the matter.
As they pretended to offer their help, they would ask for their victims’ personal information, that they would then value to drain their money or deceive them into transferring cash into the scammers’ checking accounts, according to the police.
Mr Prayuth said Mr Kuo was indicted simply by Thai prosecutors previously in 2018 with regard to his involvement within cross-border criminal action, fraud and colluding to launder money, among other costs levelled against him.
A warrant for his arrest was released by Phra Khanong Court, and he was placed on Interpol’s Red-colored Notice list, he or she said.
According to Mr Prayuth, Mr Kuo had been arrested by police in Albania’s capital, Tirana, on September 27 last year, that then alerted Thailänder authorities and initiated the extradition process.
In another case, a 20-year-old Thai guy was arrested in a immigration office within Sa Kaeo’s Aranyaprathet district as he entered the border back again from Cambodia, local officials said.
Identified only as Nikhom, the person was wanted by police in Chanthaburi’s Tha Mai district for fraud plus alleged involvement within a call centre team.
Their arrest warrant was issued by the Chanthaburi provincial court.