Two more people accused of recruiting unemployed Thais to work for a phone scam gang in Cambodia have been arrested by police, within Sa Kaeo plus Bangkok.
One allegedly provided accommodation at her house in Social fear Kaeo for recruits before they were smuggled across the border to Cambodia.
The Bangkok criminal arrest also led to four other people being captured for operating betting websites from the same house.
Officers from the Law enforcement Cyber Taskforce and Burapha 491 specific task force apprehended the two main potential foods on Friday morning, following the arrest of another alleged team member on Thurs, cyber task power chief Pol Style Damrongsak Kittiprapas said.
Rungruedee Udomdee, 38, and Phongthana Phimpha, 36, were named within arrest warrants issued by the Samut Prakan Provincial Court on July 27 for colluding in public fraud, illegal gathering, transnational crime, money laundering and related offences, he said.
Ms Rungruedee was detained when police stopped her pickup truck on an avoid road in tambon Ban Mai Nongsai of Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo, upon Friday morning. During a subsequent search her house in Khok Sung district from the border province these people impounded two cell phones and seven financial institution account passbooks as evidence.
The house was apparently used as a waypoint for job-seekers the girl allegedly lured to work as phone con artists, before they were taken illegally across the border to Cambodia, Pol Gen Damrongsak, the deputy national police chief, said.
During asking, Ms Rungruedee allegedly confessed to the costs and said that the Cambodian man compensated her 1, 000 baht per go to send the recruits to Cambodia.
Investigations on people connected to her revealed the girl boyfriend Boonyang Silsattha and his elder sibling Sakchai Silsattha were arrested in Khok Sung district associated with Sa Kaeo in May for the same supposed offences. She apparently confessed she got taken over the work after they were caught.
In Bangkok, police arrested Mr Phongthana at a home in Suan Luang district on Fri morning, Pol Style Damrongsak said.
Mr Phongthana denied being a close up associate of Atthachai Meepho, 30, but admitted the man acquired paid him one, 000 baht for each head to help people illegally cross the boundary to Cambodia. He said he had not been aware that they were being sent to work as phone scammers.
Mr Atthachai was arrested within Sa Kaeo upon Thursday, also for allegedly sending people to work as phone scammers in Cambodia. Their arrest led to the apprehension of Microsoft Rungruedee and Mister Phongthana.
The two newest arrestees were handed over to Samut Prakan police for lawful action.
The house where Mister Phongthana was arrested was found to also be used being an office for five gambling websites. 4 young people, 2 men and two females, were arrested and two computers, a single notebook computer, six pc monitors and 4 mobile phones seized as evidence.
The four gambling site suspects –Sarawut Moonfu, 20; Natthaphat Thongsai, 21; Ms Thippawan Ruamkhunthod, twenty three; and Ms Warunee Lampha, 26 – were held just for operating illegal gambling. They were handed over in order to Khlong Tan law enforcement station for legal action.
Phongthana Phimpha, 36, next to the police official, is arrested, together with four other suspects charged with operating gambling websites from your same house in Bangkok. (Photo provided: Wassayos Ngamkham)
Police arrest Anachai Meepho, thirty, a phone gang scammer, in Sa Kaeo on Thurs. The extended analysis led to the detain of two a lot more gang members upon Friday. (Photo: PCT Police Facebook page)