On October 8, the acting director of the Special Case Office (DSI) of Thailand, Yutana, ordered subordinate officials, together with personnel from the Thailand Anti-Money Laundering Office and the Institute of Forensic Sciences, to search five suspected dens in Bangkok, and arrested one Nigerian man and four Thailand (one man and three women) at an apartment on Sinakaron Road in Bangkok.
As for this operation, it is due to the fact that a number of victims have fallen into the "pig killing plate" scam and invited to invest after being lured by criminals to fall in love, with a loss of up to 50 million baht. After the police investigation, it was found that the above-mentioned Nigerian man and one of the Thai women were husband and wife, and they were specifically responsible for finding people to open illegal accounts and SIM calling cards, and often operated in the Bangkok area and kept in touch with the "agent" gang in other provinces, each of which could provide more than 100 illegal accounts per month.
The illegal accounts and phone cards collected above will be further sold to Nigeria and other criminal gangs to commit fraud, including telecommunications fraud, pig slaughter, money laundering organizations and foreign drug trafficking gangs such as Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa and West African criminal gangs active in Southeast Asia. Not only that, but it was also found that the above-mentioned criminal gang was linked to more than 1,000 illegal accounts, with a flow of up to 1.2 billion baht.
As a result, the police collected evidence and searched and found 40 passbooks, 23 mobile phones, 31 calling cards, 20 bank cards, 5 tablets and a number of other criminal evidence in the apartment where the gang was arrested. There are a total of 8 suspects in this case, of which 2 have been arrested for other cases, a total of 5 people were arrested after the search of 5 dens on the same day, and another 1 person is at large, and the police are currently speeding up the investigation of the case.