Call gang that stole THB9.5bn from Japanese victims busted in Bangkok suburbs: Police

Announcing the arrests on Thursday, deputy national police chief Pol General Surachate Hakparn said investigators tracked down the gang to a house in Samut Sakhon’s Muang district.

Police raided the house and arrested two Japanese nationals, named only as Daisuke, 49, and Taro, 41, and two Taiwanese men Chien, 50, and Ho, 40.

They also found 11 mobile phones, two laptop computers, five credit cards and documents containing victims’ information in the house.

Investigators believed the four suspects were just employees of the gang’s boss, a Taiwanese national.

Surachate said the gang would call victims in Japan claiming to be police officers. They would then tell victims that their bank account information had been breached and ask them to transfer money to a new, “secure” account.

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