National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas has ordered cybercrime suppression police to travel to Taiwan to seek more information from a Thai actress about the macau888 online gambling network.
Arisara: To be treated as witness
Arisara “Due” Thongborisut on Wednesday evening posted a video clip on her Facebook page, accusing her ex-boyfriend, Chaiwat “Benz Daemon” Kachornboonthaworn, of being one of “four brothers” allegedly running the macau888 gambling operation.
She also accused Mr Chaiwat of physically assaulting her, which she said caused her emotional distress, and which prompted her to expose the alleged operation.
Pol Gen Damrongsak has ordered Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) commissioner Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha and deputy CCIB chief Pol Maj Gen Wiwat Khamchamnan to widen the investigation into the gambling network. The police chief also ordered the CCIB chief to send a team of officers to question the actress in Taiwan, according to a police source.
Pol Maj Gen Wiwat yesterday met a team of police investigators to draw up an investigation framework and forward it to the CCIB chief.
Benz Daemon: ‘Abusive boyfriend’
The source denied speculation that the plan to question Arisara in Taiwan was aimed at finding fault with her. The actress will be interviewed as a witness only, the source said.
The police began mobilising against macau888 network members after the 32-year-old actress shed light on the website’s operations and those involved via Facebook on Jan 15. In the post, she said the gambling network was allegedly run by “four brothers”, all with the initial “Bor”.
The four siblings left Thailand for Hong Kong on Jan 16.
In Arisara’s post on Wednesday, the actress said she had been physically and mentally abused for almost two years by her ex-boyfriend.
In one incident, she accused him of pouring a bowl of hot noodles over her head in the presence of his relatives.