Metro police officers arrested six Chinese men today for allegedly bilking residents of Bangkok’s Chinatown of more than THB10 million through sales of fake gold.
Maj. Gen. Teeradet Thamsutee of the Royal Thai Police told reporters the six suspects which preyed on Thai-Chinese gold buyers in the Yaowarat area were gangsters connected to a triad known as Jiangxi Dragon. They are accused of scamming buyers into buying gold, and officers seized nearly 200 pieces weighing about 30 kilograms in total.
Attention was first brought by a Thai-Chinese victim who said the scammers claimed the gold had been dug up north of Bangkok in Ayutthaya province. The unnamed victim said he forked over THB500,000 for some of the non-precious metal. By the time he figured out it was fake, the group had gone dark.
Police said the scammers selected from an official listing of Thai-Chinese…
