Police arrested 18 gambling suspects at a resort in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima yesterday. The suspects reportedly used all 10 rooms of the Lake Pine resort to operate 2 gambling websites. Officers seized 10 desktop computers, 5 notebook computers, 30 mobile phones, and 12 bank account books, according to Police Colonel Wiwat Jitsophakul from the Crime Suppression Division.
Wiwat said the raid comes after an investigation into complaints that a Youtuber, “Jah Rok’’, encouraged people to place bets online. He said the 18 suspects arrested were administrators for the 2 sites, which made at least 20 million baht in bets per month. He said the sites, biz99.bet and aladdin.bet, had about 900 million baht in circulation.
The sites operated for 4 years in Cambodia before the network started operating them in Thailand last year. The network rented the…
