Police announce the arrest of 16 suspects, 11 Thais and five Taiwanese nationals, following Tuesday's raid on a call-scam centre in Malaysia. The suspects included the alleged leader of the Taiwanese gang. (Photo by Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)Eleven Thais and five Taiwanese were arrested during a raid by Malaysian and Thai police on a commercial building in Kuala Lumpur used as a base by an international gang of phone-scammers. Pol Maj Gen Surachate said 37 suspects - six Taiwanese, 26 Thais and five Cambodians - were earlier caught during the raids in Cambodia. Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau (TPB), interrogates Thais rounded up during the raid in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.

Source: Bangkok Post February 21, 2018 05:37 UTC