More than a dozen foreigners, primarily Australians and Britons, were detained Tuesday, according to Thai police, on suspicion of operating an internet investment scam that defrauded victims out of at least 1.9 million Australian dollars, or around $1.2 million.
At a news conference in the Thai capital, Jirabhob Bhuridej, the head of the police’s Central Investigation Bureau, stated that 13 persons had been detained after police searched a rental home in the province of Samut Prakan, which is close to Bangkok.
According to Jirabhob, a joint investigation was started when the Australian Federal Police (AFP) alerted Thai authorities about a fraud ring run by a British and an Australian last year.
The accused con artists, who were based in Thailand, used phone calls and internet ads to defraud victims in Australia and maybe other English-speaking nations out of their money by asking them to invest in long-term bonds that promised large profits, Jirabhob said.
After being taken into custody, the men were captured on camera at the rented home that had been turned into an office. Their divided workstations had papers with purported fraud scripts and procedures affixed to them. throughout addition, there were clocks on a wall that displayed the time zones throughout Australia, and whiteboards that the police claimed were used to monitor their progress.
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