PUBLISHED : 18 Aug 2023 at 04:00
Police from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) arrested a Chinese woman for various crimes, including fraud and money laundering, during raids on 29 locations linked to her in Bangkok, Pathum Thani and Chon Buri.
CCIB chief Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha said the Chinese national, identified as Fengpei Cai, was arrested for allegedly colluding in transnational crimes, fraud, putting false information into a computer system and money laundering.
She was found in her luxury apartment in the Lumpini area of Bangkok.
Police also confiscated over 100 items from the 29 locations raided that are linked to the suspect, including a 36-million-baht Rolls-Royce, other luxury cars and lease agreements worth 1.5 billion baht.
Pol Maj Gen Sathit Prom-uthai, commander of the CCIB Division 3, said that Ms Cai was a real estate agent in Thailand whose customers are reportedly mostly Chinese.
In a separate case, police teams searched three locations in Bangkok, including a room at a luxury condominium project in the Asoke-Rama 9 area.
During their search, they arrested Moe Moe Aye, 24, a Myanmar national, for colluding in fraud, inputting false information into a computer system, laundering money and other related offences.
Seized from the room at the luxury condominium were 4.4 million baht in cash, 17 bank accounts and 16 ATM cards. The raids on the two other premises found nothing illegal.
The venues were raided as they were linked to a phone scam gang whose member posed as a police chief in Tak to dupe victims into transferring money.
An investigation of transaction history revealed that Ms Moe Moe Aye’s account had 87 million baht worth of cash flow through it since the beginning of this year.