Gambling Legal In Thailand

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Buddhipongse Punnakanta, in-charge of the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society stated that the ministry has shut down 1457 URLs that have been running online gambling.

The minister stated that 140 people have also been arrested for involvement in operations of those websites and for rotating Bt21.7 billion worth of money.

Thailand does have limited legal gambling though, and the most popular form of gambling is playing the lottery. The lottery here was very popular even before it became legal, and the government looked at all of the money people were spending on it and decided that it would make sense for them to cash in on this bonanza themselves rather than.

#SavePornhub: Thailand bans porn and gambling sites, causing outrage, protests Thailand’s digital minister Puttipong Punnakanta said 190 sites were blocked under the cybercrime law, prompting. Bangkok – Alleged online gambling operator Tantai Narongkul, 24, along with three of his colleagues were arrested in Bangkok today after allegedly operating nine illegal online gambling websites under the ‘UFA’, ‘SAGAME’, and ‘SEXYGAME’ website URLs with working funds in the millions of baht. Following the capture of twenty-five illegal website employees in early October,. Forms of gambling Casinos. Despite laws against gambling, illegal casinos are widespread in Thailand. The first large-scale gambling houses were established in Ayutthaya by the government in the late-17th century or early-18th century as a result of the steady growth of Chinese population.

He added, “In the past three months, the ministry has been working with the Royal Thai Police’s Technology Crime Suppression Division to find online gambling websites and shutting access to them, in an effort to solve the problem of online gambling in Thailand, in keeping with Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s policy”, reported The Nation Thailand.

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He further added, “People are encouraged to send screenshots or the URL of online gambling ads or websites to the DESMonitor Facebook page. Officials will submit this as evidence to police for investigation, and the ministry will close the website after receiving police approval”, reported The Nation Thailand.

Notably, online gambling is an offence under the law in Thailand.