Two more detained for recruiting phone scammers

Police have arrested two more people accused of being linked to a group who hired and sent unemployed Thais to work intended for phone scammers in Cambodia.

One suspect apparently provided accommodation designed for recruits at the girl house in Sa Kaeo before these were smuggled across the border.

The particular Bangkok arrest furthermore netted four other people who allegedly operated betting sites in an individual case.

Officers from the Police Cyber Taskforce plus Burapha 491 specific taskforce apprehended the 2 main suspects the other day morning following the police arrest of an alleged bunch member on Thursday, said cyber taskforce chief Pol Style Damrongsak Kittiprapas.

Rungruedee Udomdee, 38, and Phongthana Phimpha, 36, had been arrested after the Samut Prakan Provincial Courtroom on July twenty-seven issued warrants over allegations of scams, illegal gathering, transnational crime, money washing and other offences, Pol Gen Damrongsak stated.

Ms Rungruedee was jailed after police ended her pickup truck within tambon Ban Mai Nongsai of Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo, yesterday morning, this individual said. During a lookup of her home in Khok Sung district, police confiscated two phones and several bank account passbooks.

The house was used by the job-seekers she lured just before they were taken illegally to Cambodia, he or she said.

Police said Ms Rungruedee confessed towards the charges and said a Cambodian guy paid her 1, 000 baht per head to send employees to the neighbouring country.

Inspections on people connected to her revealed several were arrested in Khok Sung in-may over the same accidents, police said, including she said the lady took over the work once they were caught.

In Bangkok, police arrested Mr Phongthana at a house in Suan Luang district yesterday morning, Pol Gen Damrongsak said.

Mr Phongthana refused being a close connect of Atthachai Meepho, a suspected trafficker, but admitted the man paid him one, 000 baht for each head to help people illegally cross into Cambodia.

He or she said he was not aware they were becoming sent to work as telephone scammers, police mentioned.

Mr Atthachai was arrested in Sa Kaeo on Thursday pertaining to allegedly sending people to work as phone scammers in Cambodia.

His detain led to the detention of Ms Rungruedee and Mr Phongthana. They were handed over to Samut Prakan police for legal actions. The house where Mister Phongthana was caught was also found to be used as an office pertaining to five gambling internet sites, police said.

Four teenagers, two men and 2 women, were imprisoned. Police also seized two desktop computers, one laptop, six monitors and four mobile phones as evidence.

The four gambling site suspects — Sarawut Moonfu, 20; Natthaphat Thongsai, 21; Thippawan Ruamkhunthod, 23; plus Warunee Lampha, 26 — were kept for operating unlawful gambling. They were handed over to Khlong Color police station within Bangkok for lawful action.