French cybercrime gang boss caught on Koh Samui
published : 18 May 2018 at 13:33
writer: Gregory Morrissey
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A French cybercrime gang leader wanted for hacking into customers' accounts at a bank in England and demanding a ransom was caught in Koh Samui district, Surat Thani, early Friday morning.
Joint teams of Crime Suppression Division police, forensic officials, French embassy officials and French police raided three locations looking for him -- one on Koh Samui and two in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district.
The team, led by Pol Col Phumin Poompanmuang, commander of sub-division 5 of the CSD, found and detained the wanted crime boss, Jonathan Verron, 25, in a house at tambon Mae Nam in Koh Samui district at around 5am on Friday. They also seized marijuana, computers and mobile phones.
Mr Verron is wanted for major cybercrimes in France. He allegedly hacked into the financial details of customers at a bank in the United Kingdom and demanded a ransom from the bank in exchange for not disclosing the information.
He is one of three suspects in the case. French police earlier apprehended two of them.
The suspect is also allegedly involved in selling illegal goods such as drugs and firearms through an internet website.
Since fleeing France he had been hiding in Thailand for the last two years, police said.
The suspect was initially being held in police custody on Koh Samui on a charge of marijuana possession.
Police said he would later be handed over to the Office of the Attorney-General for extradition to France.
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Vocabulary
- apprehend (verb): to catch; to arrest - จับ, จับกุม
- custody: the state of being in prison or under police control, especially while waiting for trial - การกักขัง, การคุมขัง
- cybercrime: crime that is committed using the Internet, for example by stealing somebody’s personal or bank details or infecting their computer with a virus -
- disclose: to give information to people - เปิดเผย
- extradition: sending someone accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed for trial or punishment - การส่งผู้ร้ายข้ามแดน
- flee: to leave a place or person quickly because you are afraid of possible danger - หนี อพยพ
- forensic: relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes or to find out why something happened - เกี่ยวกับนิติวิทยาศาสตร์
- hack: to secretly find a way of looking at and/or changing information on somebody else's computer system without permission - เจาะเข้าโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์อย่างผิดกฎหมาย
- raid: to forcefully and suddenly enter a place to catch criminals or to search for something like drugs - ใช้กำลังเข้าค้นสถานที่หรือ จับกุมคนร้าย
- ransom: the amount of money that someone wants to be paid before they will let a person go or give back a valuable object - เงินค่าไถ่
