News Forum - Chon Buri Police arrest 30 people in luxury resort gambling raid

[Thaiger]

A luxury resort hosting an alleged gambling den was raided by Chon Buri police with 30 suspected gamblers taken into custody. Chon Buri police raided the resort in Takean Tia sub-district of Bang Lamung yesterday afternoon. Police reported confiscating various gambling paraphernalia and cash in the raid. The raid stretched for over 5 hours with the police arriving around 3 pm and not finishing their investigation and arrests until 8:30 pm according to witnesses on-site at the time. Chon Buri Provincial Police took the 30 people accused of illegal gambling at the resort into custody and transported them to the […]

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[gummy]

Guess it took the RTP 5 hrs to locate all the cash and stow it away safely.

[Griff1315]

Draconian laws of Thailand will never change. Surely there is better things the RTP could be doing. There is no shortage of corruption that needs looking into, ohh sorry they can't really investigate themselves or can they?....

[ozvenision]

Thailand has some of the most strict laws regarding gambling, which is completely outlawed in the country. !!!

And yet the army owns the 2 race courses in Bangkok and Chang Mai where you can bet !!! TIT

[mickkotlarski]

35 minutes ago, ozvenision said:

Thailand has some of the most strict laws regarding gambling, which is completely outlawed in the country. !!!

And yet the army owns the 2 race courses in Bangkok and Chang Mai where you can bet !!! TIT

The race courses may well have been bought from bribe money when gambling dens were busted. Like the Carlton avatar. I reckon you fellas may make the final 8 next year.

[JohninDublin]

"... an undisclosed amount of money". Code for, "we are still filling brown envelopes".

[Freeduhdumb]

How would we survive without the "authorities?"

[HiuMak]

11 hours ago, mickkotlarski said:

The race courses may well have been bought from bribe money when gambling dens were busted. Like the Carlton avatar. I reckon you fellas may make the final 8 next year.

thats not gambling, thats a sport

[HiuMak]

13 hours ago, Thaiger said:

A luxury resort hosting an alleged gambling den was raided by Chon Buri police with 30 suspected gamblers taken into custody. Chon Buri police raided the resort in Takean Tia sub-district of Bang Lamung yesterday afternoon. Police reported confiscating various gambling paraphernalia and cash in the raid. The raid stretched for over 5 hours with the police arriving around 3 pm and not finishing their investigation and arrests until 8:30 pm according to witnesses on-site at the time. Chon Buri Provincial Police took the 30 people accused of illegal gambling at the resort into custody and transported them to the […]

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Lock them up for life. what about those online?

[Grumpyoldman]

I bet you 1000 baht nothing much happens to anyone in this incident.

[KaptainRob]

I believe a standard fine for 'gambling' is 600bt, so not a bad tea collection from just the patrons.

[mickkotlarski]

1 hour ago, HiuMak said:

thats not gambling, thats a sport

At least 90% of race course attendees go there to bet on which horse will. Do you mean to tell me there are no bookies at a race track? 

[HiuMak]

45 minutes ago, mickkotlarski said:

At least 90% of race course attendees go there to bet on which horse will. Do you mean to tell me there are no bookies at a race track? 

it's a joke mate, smiley on.

Besides all horse racing in the world serve as a purpose of some form of wagering. 

[mickkotlarski]

2 hours ago, HiuMak said:

it's a joke mate, smiley on.

Besides all horse racing in the world serve as a purpose of some form of wagering. 

Ohhh. Sorry old boy. Just for a minute I thought the sarcasm was missing. Well put. Smileys back.