On the popular tourist island of Phuket, a 25 year old man has been apprehended on charges of facilitating a mule account for a fraudulent application known as “SmartLand.” The application has reportedly swindled people out of millions of baht.
The individual, referenced by authorities solely as ‘Winat’ or ‘Oil’, was arrested in a high-traffic lifestyle shopping mall located in the Thalang district. This information was reported yesterday by the Investigation Division Metropolitan Police Bureau (IDMB).
IDMB officials, who have their base of operations in Bangkok, were the ones to initiate the arrest of Winat. Assisting in this operation were officers hailing from Provincial Police’s Information Technology Crime Suppression Center, also known as “PCT 5″, a unit primarily tackling cyber-fraud and related issues, with jurisdiction…
