Chiang Rai man ‘helped scammers launder B30 million a day’

[Bangkok Post] - 03/8/2025

A 21-year-old man arrested in Chiang Rai has admitted to having laundered an estimated 30 million baht a day for dozens of Cambodia-based call-centre scam gangs that preyed on Thais, police say.



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