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Interpreter for Chinese scam-gang leader arrested

Police arrest Surachai Sae Jang, 27, centre, an interpreter and close aide of the Chinese leader of a call centre operating in Cambodia. The suspect, whose face was blurred by police, was arrested in Chon Buri. (Photo: IDMB Facebook)

Police have arrested an interpreter for the Chinese leader of a phone-scam gang based in Cambodia, after the man had escaped and fled back to Thailand.

The gang lured people into investing in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme and had swindled its victims out of at least 16 million baht so far, police said. 

Members of the Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) arrested Surachai Sae Jang, 27, of Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang district, in tambon Bang Phra of Si Racha district in Chon Buri on Tuesday,  Pol Maj…

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