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  • Thailand NewsDSI asked to step in and investigate multimillion baht street lamp project
    Tanutam ThawanPublished: 17:56, 13 July 2021
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    DSI asked to step in and investigate multimillion baht street lamp project

    Following the ongoing controversy of hundreds of millions of baht spent by local officials on expensive street lamps, the Department of Special Investigation has been asked to step in and investigate the projects in the Racha Thewa subdistrict of Samut Prakan, just outside Bangkok. The National Anti-Corruption Commission is also establishing 5 panels to investigate the lamp project, a probe…

  • Thailand NewsDSI releases more information about major child pornography seizure at modelling agency
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 18:57, 16 February 2021
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    DSI releases more information about major child pornography seizure at modelling agency

    More information has been released about the major seizure of child pornography at a Pathum Thani modelling agency. The Department of Special Investigation, or DSI, held a press conference today and said they arrested 28 year old Danudet “Nene” Saengkaew, who ran “Nene Modeling.” Last week, police raided the modelling agency, which was based in a neighbourhood in Pathum Thani’s Khlong Luang district,…

  • Crime NewsDSI raids Thai model agency, finds 500,000 photos and videos of child pornography
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 14:43, 11 February 2021
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    DSI raids Thai model agency, finds 500,000 photos and videos of child pornography

    Around a half a million pornographic photos and videos of children allegedly from a Thai modelling agency were seized by officers from the Department of Special Investigation, or DSI. Officers raided the modelling agency, which is run from a home in a Pathum Thani neighbourhood, and arrested the owner of the agency. Police say the home had a studio with…

  • Thailand NewsAround 100 foreigners allegedly scammed by housing project company
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 18:09, 03 February 2021
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    Around 100 foreigners allegedly scammed by housing project company

    A housing project in the central province Phetchaburi is under fire after it allegedly defrauded around 100 foreigners with damages totalling 2 billion baht. The housing project allegedly issued illegal land documents and lured in foreign buyers, primarily from the United Kingdom and Russia, advertising the project on websites marketed toward those overseas. Most of the land title deeds for…

  • Northern Thailand NewsDSI says enough evidence, testimony to pursue case of vanished Karen activist “Billy”
    ThaigerPublished: 15:04, 13 August 2020
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    DSI says enough evidence, testimony to pursue case of vanished Karen activist “Billy”

    Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation has announced it will challenge prosecutors’ decision to drop charges against 4 men allegedly involved in the presumed murder of a Karen land rights activist. Department director Korawat Panprapakorn said there is sufficient evidence and eyewitness testimony to press murder charges against the 4, including the former chief of Kaeng Krachan National Park, for the…

  • Crime NewsPolice nab another suspect in notorious Forex-3D Ponzi scheme
    ThaigerPublished: 18:16, 15 April 2020
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    Police nab another suspect in notorious Forex-3D Ponzi scheme

    Police in Bangkok have arrested yet another suspect in the infamous Forex-3D Ponzi scheme which duped thousands with false promises of high returns and resulted in losses of tens of billions of baht. Department of Special Investigation officials have now arrested 30 year old Sitthanat Pho-ngern on a warrant issued by the Criminal Court. He’s charged with luring people to…

  • Crime NewsUp to 30,000 caught up in “Forex- 3D” Ponzi scheme
    ThaigerPublished: 15:50, 04 November 2019
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    Up to 30,000 caught up in “Forex- 3D” Ponzi scheme

    PHOTO: INN News The Thai justice ministry has revealed that one hundred victims were preparing to press the Department of Special Investigations (DSI) to consider the “Forex-3D” Ponzi scam case as one with ‘special status’. Read the background to the story HERE. There are thought to be up to 30,000 victims of the scheme was offering 10% interest per month to investors,…

  • Crime NewsDSI takes over 400 million baht ‘Mae Manee’ Ponzi scheme investigation
    ThaigerPublished: 10:17, 31 October 2019
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    DSI takes over 400 million baht ‘Mae Manee’ Ponzi scheme investigation

    Police are hunting for a woman suspected to be at the head of a huge pyramid scheme that has allegedly scammed hundreds of people. Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin has handed a case, where at least 2000 victims were allegedly cheated out of more than 430 million baht, over to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI). The ”Mae Manee pyramid scheme”…

  • Koh Samui NewsLuxury hotel raided in Koh Samui over alleged money laundering
    ThaigerPublished: 12:53, 22 February 2019
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    Luxury hotel raided in Koh Samui over alleged money laundering

    PHOTO: Oriental Lodge Koh Samui A luxury hotel in the south of Koh Samui was raided yesterday in an international money laundering probe. The raid was conduced by the Department of Special Investigation officers and Ministry of the Interior officials. The Komchadluek website reports that investigators allege that 100 million baht has been funneled through illegal activities at the Oriental Lodge…