12, 300 property seized in latest busts
PUBLISHED: 23 Sep 2024 at 04: 30
The Anti-Money Laundering Office ( Amlo ) has confiscated over 5 billion baht worth of assets in 48 cases related to fraud, online gambling, and corruption for the year to date.
Amlo secretary-general Theppasu Bavornchotidara and Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission ( PACC ) assistant secretary-general Bhumivisan Kasemsook recently announced the results of this year’s 11th meeting of Amlo’s Transaction Committee.
They revealed that 12, 300 assets, worth a total of 4.5 billion baht, had been seized in 48 fraud cases, including one involving Peempong Hiranprueck, a senior civil engineer at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s ( BMA ) Public Works Department, and another case linked to the high-profile Kofuk online gambling network.
Sanga” Kofuk” Kungwan is believed to possess fled earlier this year, facing charges related to an 18-billion-baht tax scams and gambling activity.
In Mr. Peempong’s event, the standard is accused of demanding pay from the owner of a golf course in the Nong Chok region in exchange for making arrangements for the golf course to keep the majority of its land during a road construction project.
In another case, Pramual Saengkaewsri, head of the Ratchathewi city company’s revenue portion, accepted bribes from enterprise operators, allowing them to avoid paying house and property tax. Amlo has seized 47 million ringgit in resources from both leaders.
In the Kofuk situation, Amlo confiscated a full of 372 assets, including cash, jewellery, territory, and bank accounts, for a combined 963 million baht, from Sanga” Kofuk” Kungwan and other people associated with him. Also, 107 goods worth a complete of 3.1 billion ringgit have been seized in some scam cases where people lost money to cybercriminals.
This includes a high-profile case linked to Apimuk Bamrungwong, a former main shareholder of More Profit Corporation ( MORE), and his system, reportedly involved in the 800-million-baht adjustment of MORE’s investment last year, causing investors to lose their money.
A network of online gambling sites linked to former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate” Big Joke” Hakparn was another well-known case that Mr. Theppasu made known.
According to Mr. Theppasu, Amlo seized 400, 000 baht worth of property related to the crime. However, Pol Gen Surachate is in the process of requesting the cancellation of the seizure, said Mr Theppasu.