He was arrested in January last year in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district where he continued his illegal business, Pol Maj Gen Maitree said. In Thailand, Mr Zhang and four other suspects who were also detained recently faced money-laundering charges in connection with their involvement in the call centre-based Ponzi scheme, Pol Maj Gen Maitree said. However, before they were deported to China, police questioned them and extracted information about the assets they had handled for the call centre, Pol Maj Gen Maitree said. Forty suspects were arrested in the raid on the call centre gang that had lured the two men to work for it by pretending the gang had a restaurant job for them in Malaysia. When they arrived in Malaysia, they were forced to con Thai victims through the call centre gang, Pol Maj Gen Surachet said.

Source: Bangkok Post January 28, 2018 22:18 UTC