Vietnamese ‘romance scammers’ busted in Thai luxury villa raid


ThE police have dismantled a major call centre opera­tion run by a gang of 27 Vietnamese nationals, who set up their base in luxury villas in the suburbs of Bangkok to perpetrate an elaborate ‘romance scam’ that defrauded victims of tens of millions of baht.

The bust, led by Pol Lt Col Paiboon Sorso, Deputy Super­­­in­ten­dent of the Patrol Division, saw 191 police officers storm the illicit operation, appre­­hending 27 individuals and confiscating a significant cache of evidence inclu­ding 116 mobile phones, 45 computers and 5g of ketamine.

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