Police raided four locations in Bangkok and Loei on Saturday, arresting three suspects for their alleged involvement in online gambling websites.
Pol Gen Roy Ingkapairote, deputy national police chief, said yesterday the ️Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) had arrested the suspects over their links to a number of gambling websites, including betfixroyal.com.
The suspects were identified by authorities only as Suchanan, Oranee and Natthawat.
Officers confiscated 100 bank passbooks, 55 ATM cards, 30 mobile phones, 920,000 baht in cash, electronic devices such as laptops and iPads and a white Toyota car worth one million baht, he said.
Pol Gen Roy said their gambling websites have over 50,000 users with more than one hundred million baht worth of cash flow.
All suspects have been charged with promoting gambling and colluding in money laundering.
Pol Gen Roy also said the suspects were also found to have been involved in online gambling scams in the North, prompting officers to press more charges in accordance with the Royal Decree on Cyber Crime Prevention and Suppression.
Police will notify the Anti-Money Laundering Office to impound the suspects' assets for further investigation as they widen their probe.
Pol Gen Roy said the arrest followed the capture of Pongsiri Thanratchawongsuek, alias "Boss Than", the chairman of the Lamphun Warriors Football Club, who is accused of running an illegal online gambling website TS911.com. He was arrested in Phayao on June 20.
An investigation showed his website was designed in a way that allows users to gambling online by scanning a QR code on the Line mobile app.
Pol Gen Roy said Mr Pongsiri's site had 40,704 users and 7,017 followers on Line. Police also seized assets including his house, land and luxury cars worth about one billion baht.