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Top cop, commerce officials arrested for selling victims' data to scammers

A police lieutenant colonel, said to work at Ao Noi in Prachuap Khiri Khan and whose face is blurred in this police photo, is one of three state officials arrested for selling people's personal information to Chinese phone scammers. (Photo supplied/ Wassayos Ngamkham)

A police lieutenant colonel and a married couple at the Commerce Ministry have been arrested for selling the personal information of more than 1,000 people to Chinese call centre scammers, with 20,000 baht a day being paid into their bank accounts.

Deputy national police chief, Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol, and Cybercrime Investigation Bureau commissioner, Pol Lt Gen Worawat Watnakhonbancha, on Friday revealed the alleged involvement of the three state officials in the scams. 

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