Chiang Mai police raided three online gambling dens and arrested 13 Koreans for allegedly operating them.
About 50 immigration police officers simultaneously raided two houses in Sinthana Housing Estate in San Sai district and a condominium room in Nong Pa Krang area of Muang Chiang Mai after they received a tip that the places were being used as illegal online casinos for a Korean transnational cybercrime gang.
The raids netted 13 Koreans, 12 males and a woman, and seized 25 computer sets along with South Korean bank books with large amounts of money transactions. They were current accounts and had names of football teams in Britain's Premier League, Spain's La Liga and other countries as account names. Names of major American basketball and American football teams were also included.
Police also found notebooks with betting details — written in Korean and English — worth around four to five million won (120,000-170,000 baht). Police said the suspects arrived in Thailand early this month and paid 60,000 baht a month rent for each house.
An initial examination of the impounded computers indicated the gang had run a gambling website which had more than 10,000 customers.