Police raided the operations of lottery ticket scammers in Phuket on Wednesday, as the government continues its nationwide crackdown on overpriced lottery tickets bought on the country’s well-liked Blue Dragon Lottery website. Three properties on the island were raided for selling overpriced lottery tickets.
Armed with search warrants, police raided three houses on the island and arrested individuals who weren’t Blue Dragon Lottery representatives. They seized computer systems and bankbooks, which had been handed over to the Tha Chatchai Police, near the Region 8 Police headquarters on the northern finish of the island. Officers are now investigating whether the people arrested will face any costs. Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut Liamsanguan, Police Commander of Region 8, led the raids.
“They labored as a kind of agent whereby Blue Dragon sold lottery tickets to them at B90-97 each, which the agent had to promote for B100-105, or extra. Blue Dragon is involved in promoting overpriced lottery tickets to brokers, and agents themselves are selling overpriced ticket. Regardless of where Blue Dragon gets the lottery tickets from, Blue Dragon sells overpriced lottery tickets to brokers and most people.”
According to Liamsanguan, the raids in Phuket have been part of coordinated raids at 13 areas in seven provinces, together with Phuket, Chumphon, Krabi, Nakhon Ranong, Phang Nga, Surat Thani and Sri Thammarat.
ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ ราคา ordered the raids in Phuket, after seizing “millions of lottery tickets” in Monday’s raid on the workplaces of Lottery Online Co in Bangkok. final Friday, similar raids occurred on the places of work of lottery intermediary company Mungkornfain in Loei and Nonthaburi provinces.
Following Monday’s Bangkok raid, Prachuap stated they had discovered proof of ticket transactions price more than a hundred million baht per lottery draw, Thai PBS reported. As a outcome, the distributors concerned in the scheme would lose their lottery ticket quota with the Government Lottery Office, if they had one.
Earlier this week, Thailand’s lottery ticket crackdown kingpin, deputy prime minister Seksakol Attawong, stated his goal was “to deter strange people from participating in promoting overpriced tickets.” Meanwhile, the companies involved face prosecution for making hundreds of thousands of unlawful baht in the lottery scheme..