CYBER CRIME and Border Patrol police seized 80 million baht in cash linked to a hybrid scam gang that was being taken to the Thai-Myanmar border at Mae Sot district of Tak province today (Apr. 17), TV Channel 7 said.
At the order of Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau chief Pol. Lt. Gen Worawat Watnakornbancha, Pol. Maj. Gen. Sathit Prom-uthai, head of Cyber Crime Inivestigaton 3, and his team flew in a helicopter to Border Patrol Sub-division 34’s Phra Chao Tak camp to take action on temporarily seizing this large amount of cash that a hybrid scam gang had obtained by swindling people.
Cyber Crime police had been tipped off that a huge amount of swindled cash was being transported to a neighbouring country so they set up checkpoints at this border district to arrest them.
Shortly a grey sedan drove up to Huai La-U checkpoint in Mae Sot’s Dan Mae Lamao subdistrict with two suspects, Mr. Surat and Mr. Kannapon (surnames withheld), taking a total of 80 million baht in five cloth bags to the border.
The two suspects told police they were hired to transport the money from Ayutthaya’s Bang Pa-in district to Tak’s Mae Sot district. After that the big sum of money was to be taken across the border to Myanmar’s Myawaddy border town through natural channels.
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Cyber Crime and Border Patrol Police checking the big sum of cash they seized. Photo: TV Channel 7
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