They allegedly used corporate bank accounts to launder more than 100 million baht for an illegal online gambling network. (Photo: Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau)Cybercrime police have arrested the owners of two companies, accused of using their corporate bank accounts to launder more than 100 million baht for an illegal online gambling network. The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau began an investigation after they uncovered an illegal online gambling operation linked to the “lalikabet168e” network, Pol Col Veekawin Sermsrithanachai, chief of sub-division 3, said. The registered companies were found to have no actual business operations and were established solely as fronts for opening accounts for money laundering, Pol Col Veekawin. Both were charged with colluding in organising or promoting illegal gambling, including advertising or directly or indirectly illegally persuading others to participate via electronic media, with conspiring to commit money laundering, and with money laundering offences.
