Thai police said on Tuesday, February 18, having dismantled a criminal network suspected of having defrauded online the equivalent of $ 187 million (179 million euros) in cryptocurrencies. The Central Office of Investigation of Thailand (CIB) arrested ten suspects, including Chinese nationals, for “fraud, cyberfraude and complicity in money laundering”, and in search of twenty-two others, including Thai, Chinese and Chinese and Chinese Koreans. According to investigators, the suspects attracted the victims through false online jobs and then convinced them “to invest a large sum of money by promising them 30 to 50 % returns on investment”. Supadech Thanachaisiri, one of the investigators, told the Agency France-Presse (AFP) that “these crooks are all linked to centers located on the other side of the border”. This operation occurs while Thailand is trying to rage against illegal scam centers that have flowered in certain border regions of Cambodia and Burma, prey to a civil war. The staff of these centers are made up of foreigners, including many Chinese people, often victims of abduction and forced to forced work to defraud their compatriots in a very lucrative sector which, according to observers, is in billions of dollars. Real estate investments out of $ 187 million, about half was converted into Thai baht, while the rest was invested in real estate, the police press release said. A woman, a former tourist guide for Chinese tourists, is suspected of having facilitated money laundering by converting cryptocurrencies into baht and “distributed funds to a Chinese union”, winning a commission, according to the police. Authorities have entered cash, luxury watches and high -end cars as part of the survey. Thai police said last week that they undertook to intensify her efforts to combat transnational scam operations. At the beginning of the month, the government cut the cross -border supply of electricity of five Burmese localities suspected of sheltering scam centers. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers in Southeast Asia, a flourishing online scam business and the world impact read the world later with AFP reuse this content
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