Police thwart attempt to pull 176 million from bank account

A Cambodian national has been arrested by police in Bangkok for using a fake passport to obtain a new bank passbook. The passbook is believed to be for a bank account with 176 million baht in savings, which is thought to belong to a call centre gang.

The police were alerted to the situation on March 24 when it was reported to the Thong Lor Police Station. They were told that a foreign national was attempting to use a fake passport to obtain a passbook at the Kasikornbank (KBank) branch at EmQuartier shopping mall in Bangkok.

Passbooks are an obsolete transaction tracking method most of the world abandoned with the rise of Internet banking, but for some reason, they remain crucial in Thai banking.

The deputy national police chief revealed details of the…