PUBLISHED: 19 Apr 2024 at 04 :00
The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society ( DES ) intends to pay back to victims more than 10 billion baht worth of assets and money seized from call center scam gangs.
Minister Prasert Jantararuangtong stated yesterday that the Anti-Money Laundering Office ( Amlo ) had been recouped for the seized assets, including 6 billion baht in cash, since 2021.
According to him, Amlo has made the decision to return all of the seized goods to the patients.
According to Mr. Prasert, anyone who has been defrauded by the telephone centers may turn in a bank transaction confirmation to Amlo that demonstrates a connection to the network suspects. Requests can be submitted to the Amlo business via postal service, in person or via email, he added.
After Amlo receives the data, it will be passed on to the jury to request resource safety for the sufferers. Within a month, he said, the resource analysis process will be finished.
The patients are anticipated to get the returned goods at a price that is less than Amlo’s total assets.
According to Mr. Prasert, those who previously did not complaint the police can now turn in information to Amlo and anticipate receiving their money as well. In 90 time, Amlo’s intention to return the goods will be made public.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Prasert, together with the Royal Thai Police’s Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB ) and a cryptocurrency agency, Binance, gave a press briefing about a raid on a Chinese-led hybrid scam syndicate that caused at least 250 million baht of damage.
During the procedure, a believe identified as Su Shoaxian and three different Chinese were arrested and 15 resources, valued at 600 million baht or more, were seized. According to the research, the defendants lured victims to invest in crypto trading on a false wireless application. They were duped into transferring wealth to the records, which claimed to be online marketplaces. Mr. Su owns the transactions.
More research led to the arrest of four more suspects: Wisit, 31; Siraphat, 25; a Taiwanese regional named Dongjian, 45; and a 41-year-old Singaporean called Wei King Kek.
They were arrested for fraud, money fraud, participating in international crime companies, and the deceitful export of twisted computer data.
The police even issued 26 more arrest permits, said Mr Prasert.