Police have intensified a crackdown on online gambling ahead of the Fifa World Cup this month, targeting football betting websites and social media channels.
Pol Lt Gen Trairong Piwpan, deputy director of the Technology Crime Suppression Centre and spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch had ordered a nationwide crackdown on all forms of online gambling, including investigations, arrests and the blocking of online platforms.