PUBLISHED: 13 Jun 2024 at 04: 00
NEWSPAPER SECTION: News
A couple has been detained for registering with a phony crypto investment gang and opening substitute bank accounts.
The defendants were identified only as Samruay and his family, Amornsiri, both 29.
According to the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau, they were just detained in Nakhon Ratchasima and are facing charges of money laundering, importing false information into the computer program, and colluding with authorities.
The pair admitted receiving 5, 000 baht each to open bank accounts in exchange for money the group received from false cryptocurrency investments, according to the bureau.
They traveled to Cambodia to include their faces scanned because accessing accounts with significant cash transfers requires visual acknowledgement.
Their arrests were a part of a larger commission assault known as the Black Hat Operation, which has seizes more than 125 million baht of cryptocurrency-related resources.