Police display the 69 computers and other evidence seized during raids on four converted shipping containers housing online gambling operations in Chanthaburi’s Pong Nam Ron district, at a media briefing on Friday. (Photo: Wassayos Ngamkham)
Police have busted a major online gambling operation working from converted shipping containers in a village on the border with Cambodia, and taking bets from tens of thousands of punters each day.
Thirty-four people were arrested on charges of running online gambling websites, with wagers totalling more than one billion baht, during the police raid in Pong Nam Ron district, in Chanthaburi province.
The gambling operations were housed inside four converted shipping containers at Pak Kad border village.
They were raided on Thursday by officers of the Central…
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