An Indian national has been arrested for laundering money from drug trafficking, the Immigration Bureau said.
Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang, chief of the Immigration Bureau, said Navjot, 31, an Indian national, was arrested after he was found running an electric appliance store on Pahurat Road allegedly used to launder drug money.
The suspect reportedly used the money to buy and sell gold so as to launder drug funds and transfer it to trafficking networks.
In another police action, Somsak, 47 and Usamat, 45, were arrested for taking and using others' electronic cards with police collecting as evidence, mobile phones, bank books and debit cards.
According to the suspects, they attained bank accounts and debit cards from others to sell to their customers at 2,500 baht per account.
In a separate case, two Chinese nationals identified as Terng and Tong, were arrested for allegedly running cryptocurrency scams.
Mr Terng was arrested at Wang Thong Lang district on July 15 and Mr Tong was detected at his house in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district on July 25. The two said they were hired by an individual based at Laos. Police are trying to recover 1.7 million baht taken from victims.
In Phuket, a 27-year-old Chinese national was arrested on Aug 9 for allegedly being a loan shark, lending money and forcing repayment through violence.
