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Police Officer Brutally Stabs 2 Women, Killing One Injuring Other

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Police Officer Brutally Stabbed 2 Women, Killing One Injuring Other

Police in southern Thailand have reported that a psychologically ill police officer brutally stabbed the two women, killing one of them in Nakhon Si Thammarat. The police officer ran out of his police flat, kicked over a passing motorcycle and repeatedly stabbed the two women.

Pol Col Somporn Nitipak, chief of the Cha-uat police station, announced on Sunday that Pol Sgt Chavanil Jindamaneemas, 30, had been arrested and fired following the fatal assault.

Police identified Ms Wijitra Rakkhanam, 51, was the deceased woman, and Ms Prapha Yamyuean, 69, as the critically injured woman. They received multiple stab wounds to the face, neck, and back.

According to Pol Col Somporn, Pol Sgt Chavanil had recently been transferred from Phuket and was being treated for tension. The sergeant was assigned as a backup driver at the station.

On Saturday evening, Pol Sgt Chavanil crashed his automobile into a pit. When a tow truck arrived to pick it up, the driver overheard the cop conversing angrily with his mother on his cell phone.

The tow truck driver then told the police sergeant not to talk ill to his mother. Enraged, Pol Sgt Chavanil attempted to cut him with a  knife, but the managed to flee the scene.

The attack on the women occurred after the police officer returned to his flat from crashing his car. As the motorbike came, Pol Sgt Chavanil dashed out of his door, kicked the bike to the ground and began stabbing furiously. Other officers ran from the station to arrest the police sergeant.

Pol Col Somporn stated that following the attack, Pol Sgt Chavanil took a blood alcohol test, which revealed that he was under the influence of alcohol.

Both female victims were sellers who generally resided in Songkhla province. They had just returned to Cha-uat district to see relatives and were on their way to see some when they were attacked.

On Saturday, several families rushed to the Cha-uat police station and asked to see the attacker in his jail. The sergeant briefly apologised. The relatives cursed him out loud before they were persuaded to leave the police station.

Police Find Dead Body

In other police news, a highly tattooed Asian male died on Sunday in a vacant booth near Suvarnabhumi airport from three bullet wounds in the head. At noon, police at Suvarnabhumi Airport were alerted to the discovery of a body in a deserted one-story stall beside a wastewater treatment facility on Suvarnabhumi Sai 4 Road in Tambon Nong Prue, Bang Phli district.

The body lay face up. There were two bullet wounds on the left side of the head, and one on the right. Police thought the victim had been dead for five hours.

There were tattoos on the body, arms, and bottom. The body had a gold-silver ring on the right little finger and a gold ring on the left middle finger. There were 3,181 baht in cash on the body, but no identity documents.

The body wore jeans, white socks, and a black T-shirt with the letters “ASPA” on the back. At the site, there were no shoes.

In front of the stall, there were black gloves and fragments of human brain. There were bloodstains on the ground that indicated the path of the body being pulled into the stall.

At 7.30 a.m., CCTV footage captured a red Mazda automobile circling the area several times before parking at a shelter in front of the stall. Samut Prakan police were attempting to identify the victim.

Burnt Remains in Garbage Dump

Meanwhile, On February 17, a lady was arrested in connection with the discovery of a burned human skeleton at a waste dump in the Waeng Noi neighbourhood. She said the dead, a friend, died from convulsions and burned her body on a disused vehicle tire.

Pol Col Preecha Kengsarikij, deputy commander of Khon Kaen provincial police, confirmed on Sunday that the burnt skeleton belonged to Benyapa Panapanprapa, 47, of Samut Prakan’s Bang Phli district. The suspect was identified as Paijit Konkid, 39, of Tambon Lahan Na, where the corpse was discovered.

Investigators summoned Paijit for questioning after finding that a woman friend she had lived with for seven years had vanished.

Ms Paijit informed police that she and a companion drove to Benyapa’s residence in Samut Prakan on February 12. Benyapa collapsed after eating lunch with us. They attempted to resuscitate Benyapa but she died. Both ladies then wrapped Benyapa’s body in cloth, loaded her into the car, and drove back to Khon Kaen’s Waeng Noi area the next day.

After locating an abandoned automobile tire, they stopped at a gasoline station on the Waeng Noi-Chaiyaphum road and paid 100 baht for petrol. They then drove to the waste dump, where they burned Benyapa’s body at 4 p.m.

Ms Paijit returned home after she had burned the body. The burnt bones of Benyapa were discovered on the night of February 17.

According to Pol Col Preecha, police are still not convinced by Ms Paijit’s account and will continue their investigation. The defendant faces preliminary allegations of theft, receiving stolen property, and concealing and destroying a body to conceal the cause of death.

 

 

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Police Officer Being Ordained at Temple Arrested for Running Scam Call Center

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Police in Northern Thailand have arrested a fellow officer as he was being ordained at a temple in Ngao district of neighbouring Lampang province.

Pol Lt Col Bandit Khonkan chief inspector from the Hang Dong police station was disrobed and taken to the Chang Puak station in Chiang Mai. He was arrested on charges of running a call centre scam gang in Chiang Mai Province.

According to Thai Media Chiang Mai Provincial Police Region 5 obtained an arrest warrant for Pol Lt Col Bandit on Friday from the Chiang Mai Provincial Court for procuring illegal telecom equipment, setting up a station and using public airwaves to run a telecommunications business without permission.

Pol Lt Col Bandit reportedly told investigators that he was not the ringleader and was only a member of the gang with Chinese partners.

His arrest followed the apprehension of his 26-year-old daughter, Miss Wanuchapond, 26, and three others during raids at three housing projects in Chiang Mai on Friday, Pol Maj Gen Weerachon Boontawee, deputy chief of Provincial Police Region 5 told Thai media.

During the raids police police discovered around 12 GSM gateways, or SIM boxes, which are devices used for converting cellular networks into mobile phone numbers used domestically.

The chief inspectors daughter Miss Wanuchapond told the arresting officers that she was paid 8,000 baht a month at each of the three locations for renting thr rooms and monitoring devices.

She claimed she had no idea what the devices were and accepted the job because the pay was attractive.

Police investigators working with telecom regulators used a special tracking device to monitor the gang’s communications and learned that its base was in Myanmar opposite Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai.

The call center gang used the GSM gateways to make calls over the internet to scam people in Thailand out of million of baht.

The GSM gateways transmitting signals via SIM boxes to convert them into domestic phone numbers, duping victims into thinking they were being called from Thai government agencies.

Pol Maj Gen Weerachon said that each SIM box held 32 SIM cards, with a capacity of up to 300,000 calls a month. The seized devices had made fraudulent calls over 3.6 million times.

He said the their investigation is ongoing and they are working to track down the remaining conspirators, including Chinese and other Thai suspects.

Authorities are still deciding whether Pol Lt Col Bandit will be dismissed from the force, he said, adding that so far, no other officers are known to have been involved.

Police in Chiang Rai Launch Crackdown on Cyber Criminals in Golden Triangle

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Settha Thavisin has authorized the establishment of an emergency cyber center operated by the Royal Thai Police to combat transnational crimes committed by call center gangs along the Thai border in Chiang Rai province.

On July 19, Prime Minister Settha Thavisin directed the Center to combat information technology crimes. The Royal Thai Police (Royal Thai Police) will crack down on call center gangs in Myanmar, Laos, and along the border.

His directive comes as call center gangs ratchet up their scams to defraud people of their money, causing concern among Thais and jeopardizing the country’s economic and social stability.

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Thai Immigration Police Arrest Colombian Tourists Over Home Invasions

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Immigration police officers have arrested four Colombian nationals in connection with a series of home burglaries at luxury housing complexes in the Bangkok metropolitan area and Chiang Buri Province.

Pol Maj Gen Panthana Nuchanart, deputy commissioner of the Immigration Bureau, told a press briefing that three of the suspects were apprehended in Nonthaburi Province and the fourth in South Pattaya, Chon Buri Province.

According to the Bangkok Post, the Colombians were charged with stealing conspiracy and seized around 3 million baht (US$82,500.00).

According to Pol Maj Gen Panthana, the criminals rode motorcycles through housing estates, scoping out the properties and waiting for the owners to depart before committing their crimes.

He stated that all four of the accused denied any involvement in the home break-ins, but the arresting squad discovered evidence that implicated them.

Police called to home invasion

Meanwhile, police were dispatched to a luxury housing development in Tambon Nong Prue, Chonburi Province, after a Chinese man was attacked during a house invasion.

When they arrived, they discovered the house owner, Mr. Qian Peng Yi, visibly scared and with marks from being tied up with a cable. He informed police that three Chinese males broke into his home at 9 p.m., one of whom brandished a gun at him and directed him to his bedroom.

They bound his hands and feet, gagged him with fabric, taped his head, and forced him into the bed. The intruders then attempted to compel him into transferring 10 million baht in cryptocurrencies to them, endangering the life of his 33-year-old cousin who was in a second-floor bedroom.

While they scoured the house in search of riches, Mr. Peng Yi managed to flee and hide; he subsequently observed them leave with his cousin. Officials investigated the property and analyzed security camera footage from the incident and surrounding areas.

Around 9 p.m., a 30-year-old van driver came at the Bang Lamung police station after being contacted by an agency to carry Chinese customers from Pattaya to Suvarnabhumi Airport.

The driver informed authorities that he was supposed to pick them up at a motel about a kilometer from the Chinese businessman’s home. He then drove them to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport, arriving at 1 a.m. and receiving 1,800 baht.

The driver took a snapshot of the group smoking at the airport gate and identified one of them as the victim’s cousin. Police suspected coordination between her and the three suspects in her cousin’s heist, who all departed Thailand on the same aircraft.

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Son of Thailand’s Leading Legal Scholar on Corruption Arrested for Running Online Gambling Network

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The son of a former senator and leading economist and expert on corruption and gambling in Thailand has been arrested for on charges of running an online gambling network and its payment system.

Police from Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) have confiscated assets worth more than (US$ 11.1 million) 400 million baht.

Narote Piriyarangsan, 33, was arrested following crackdowns in three sites around the city, according to Pol Maj Gen Athip Pongsiwapai, commander of the police Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD).

Mr Narote’s father, Sangsit Piriyarangsan, is an economist who has written articles and books about corruption and gambling. He was one of the appointed senators that were investigating the government’s intention to legalize casino gaming before their terms expired.

Police also detained 39-year-old Narayut Narakaew, the owner of the gambling website 69pgslot.com. The Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the couple for operating an internet gambling service and money laundering.

According to the Bangkok Post, police seized two desktop computers, one laptop computer, 14 mobile phones, 21 bank passbooks, 53 ATM cards, and four high-end cars — a Ferrari 926 GTS, an Aston Martin, a Lexus, and a Subaru — totaling more than 400 million baht.

Police launched the inquiry after discovering the online gambling site, which accepted funds via an automatic deposit-withdrawal system through bank accounts and deposits in the AskMePay system. Players scanned the VPay QR code as well as the QR codes for Heng Online 888 or Heng Pay Company.

Police also discovered that payments received via QR code scans were transferred to the account of Heng Pay Co and then to the gambling website’s mule accounts using AskMePay, which did not use banks’ face recognition scanning. An inquiry indicated a monthly turnover of approximately 5 billion baht.

According to investigators, the website has been up and running for around four years, with the payment mechanism in use for roughly eight months.

According to Pol Maj Gen Athip, Mr Narote owns the gaming website’s payment systems and is the director of Heng Pay Co. After gathering evidence, authorities requested arrest warrants for 14 people.

Thailand does not allow almost any kind of gaming. Even though the law doesn’t say anything specific about online gaming, it is still considered gambling. The country has pretty strict rules about gambling. Thai punters can bet on the national lottery and horse races, but they can’t bet on any other types of games.

But it’s not a secret that there is a huge illegal gaming business in Thailand, even though it’s illegal.

The illegal casinos, online betting shops, underground lotteries, and pop-up bookies that take bets on everything from cockfights to Muay Thai make a shadow economy that is worth billions of dollars every year.

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