(Photo by Wassayos Ngamkham)The Crime Suppression Division has launched an investigation into five cases involving disputes over the ownerships of first-prize government lottery tickets as it suspects they are organised crime. So I ordered the Crime Suppression Division to find out if there's a connection between these cases," Pol Lt Gen Thitirat said. The five cases happened in Bangkok, Buri Ram, Kanchanaburi, Suphan Buri and Udon Thani provinces. In the Suphan Buri case, a woman asked the police to find a first-prize ticket worth 6 million baht from the Dec 1 draw. In Udon Thani, one of the two women in the Bangkok case claimed another friend had stolen her half of the 30-million-baht first-prize tickets from the April 1 draw this year.

Source: Bangkok Post December 12, 2017 13:07 UTC