Additionally, two businesses are indicted by the government for distributing thousands of online gambling promotions.
According to police, two sisters in Lampang are accused of operating a gambling site that had roughly 700 million rmb in circulation.
In Thursday’s attacks on three homes in the northern state, the ladies were taken into custody along with four other employees.
Two businesses in Lampang and Chiang Mai that distributed thousands of online gambling promotions were likewise raided and their owners detained.
Punika Arayasuwan, 41, and Pratthana Arayasuwan, 39, were wanted on arrest warrants issued by the Chiang Mai Provincial Court for running an online gaming function or persuading people to bargain, and for laundering income.
Officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB ) searched three houses in tambon Bo Haew of Lampang, said Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha, commissioner of the CCIB.
Four team members, three men and one female, who were business administrators and marketing personnel, were detained by officers along with the two sisters.
The four were identified as Tiyanon Arayasuwan, 39, Bodin Jaita, 33, Chaiyawit Arwad, 39, and Thippapha Seekham, 25
Seized from the houses were four cars, four motorcycles, more than 200, 000 ringgit in money, diamond ornaments and manufacturer- name bags. The seized goods had a value of about 20 million ringgit.
Researchers discovered that the business “hppoipet” had posted ads to inspire people to gamble online, according to Pol Lt Gen Worawat. After that, they discovered that the procedure was conducted in Lampang from three homes.
When authorities arrived at one of the homes, they discovered the two sisters and the employees chatting with online gambling customers. According to Pol Lt. Gen. Worawat, the place had a grocery store in the front, and an IT-equipped bedroom had been installed inside to manage the website.
Ms. Punika and Ms. Pratthana testified to police that they once worked as PR employees for a casino in Poipet, a frontier city in Thailand, that attracted tens of Thai gamblers.
When they returned to Thailand, their stepson- in- law saw an opportunity to make money. He got in touch with a Thai operator to buy a company to operate the HPPOIPET website in Thailand, and he also owned shares of the gambling site there.
The two women claimed to have been running the Lampang business for seven years and have received commission payments of between 10 % and 20 % of the bets. The site had more than 5, 000 clients, both Thais and Vietnamese nationals, and more than 700 million ringgit in flow, according to the CCIB key.
The other defendants who worked as site officials were paid 8, 000 to 14, 000 ringgit a month. Another girl, identified as Kotchakorn Iang- on, 28, was being sought as she opened a bank accounts for money from the web, said Pol Lt Gen Worawat.
Another group of CCIB officers even raided two businesses in Lampang and Chiang Mai on Thursday after finding out that they had used online communication to inspire people to gamble.
The officers detained the two businesses ‘ owners and charged them with supporting a gambling function, according to the CCIB key.
Havesms Co in Chiang Mai, according to the police research, sends one billion messages per year and makes about 100 million ringgit. 40 million emails were sent annually by Dav Fong Co in Lampang, earning$ 4 million.
The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau’s head of operations, Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha, points to a chart that shows the activities of one of the two companies that distributed virtual messages to encourage betting. ( Photo supplied/Wassayos Ngamkham )