Thai CIB helps FBI freeze assets of largest cybercrime operation


- The Nation/ANN

BANGKOK: The Central Investigation Bureau has helped the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) track down and freeze a large part of some 1 billion baht worth of assets of the founder and administrator of the world’s largest cybercriminal operation laundered in Thailand.

On Saturday (June 1), CIB commissioner Pol Lt-Gen Jirapop Puridej assigned Crime Suppression Division deputy commander Pol Colonel Boonlua Phadungthing to cooperate with Mike Chai, an FBI officer attached to the US embassy in Thailand, to search a house and three condominiums in Pattaya.

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