BANGKOK: Thai police have launched a citywide hunt to capture a cross-border scamming network that fled conflict in Myanmar and hid in Thailand, using luxury villas in Samut Prakan as a temporary base.
On Oct 31, Lieutenant-General Natthasak Chaowanasai, commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau, together with Colonel Pattanasak Bubphasuwan, commander of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), and Captain Adisorn Intiyot, inspector of CSD Division 2, announced the arrest of 24 suspected members of an international scam gang.
