After selling the seedy side of his business empire, Mr Chuvit began a career in politics as an anti-corruption campaigner, twice serving as a member of parliament. "There is 5,000 websites about the gambling in Thai," Mr Chuvit said on "Deeper Dive". Ignorance of the law, Mr Chuvit pointed out, is no defence -- and enforcement can be lucrative. Mr Chuvit said the amounts were so large because police knew they had caught some big fish. Many of the Chinese, Mr Chuvit discovered, were on visas issued fraudulently in the Northeast.
