Police yesterday revealed that a Thai-Chinese gang had been arrested in Chaing Mai for operating illegal dating scam activities after a tip off.
Police apprehended 24 people after a member of the public alerted authorities to a group of Chinese men behaving suspiciously at the luxury Chaing Mai holiday resort. The gang included 20 Chinese and 4 Thai, 2 of the gang were women, three of the Thai criminals weren’t legally registered in the country, while the Chinese offenders were all in the country illegally.
Director of Combating Transnational Criminal and Illegal Immigrants Center, Witsanu Prasartthong-o-sot, revealed that officers had been monitoring the actions of the group staying in Chiang Mai’s Fang district, and obtained a warrant from the court to search the premises of BK Resort and BK Coffee in Moo 7, Tambon Mae Soon, before making the arrests.
Officers seized ten…
