Bangkok and Songkhla authorities are still looking for the website’s international managers, with six Thais detained.
PUBLISHED: 19 Apr 2025 at 16: 58
Six Thai nationals have been detained by hacking police after allegedly starting a big gambling website with more than 3.2 billion baht in circulation with a fictional agricultural trading company.
According to Pol Lt. Gen Trairong Phiewphan, head of the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB ), five men and one woman were taken into custody during searches in Bangkok and Songkhla in connection with the Fun586 website.
He claimed that the suspects set up a false agricultural trading firm as a front for the website, which was run by three foreigners and had 3.2 billion ringgit in circulation. They allegedly opened mule accounts and set up a false agrarian trading company.
According to CCIB authorities, the organization received money from the gambling activity.  ,
The company’s office was a room in a row house, according to the officers when they arrived there. At a lecture in Khon Kaen on Saturday, Pol Lt. Gen Trairong claimed that the six offenders were business associates of the phony company.
According to Pol Lt Gen Trairong, the money gambling placed entered the pony accounts, was finally transferred to the business, and then onward to the users, who were two Chinese citizens and one Indonesian.
The CCIB has contacted Interpol to request their assistance in bringing the three international offenders to justice.
More than 20 Thais and six other immigrants, including five Malaysians and one Thai, were also identified as part of the investigation, according to Pol Lt Gen Trairong. According to him, permits have been issued for their prosecutions.