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Police raid condo to arrest Chinese bosses of call center gang

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This is the dramatic moment police raided a condo and arrested two Chinese call centre gang bosses in Thailand.

The suspects, named in local reports as Ye Wanyou, 29, and Li Weijie, 30, allegedly operated a 'double tap scam' by creating a sham police and anti-laundering agency on social media.

They allegedly bought online advertisements and thousands of likes to make the agency appear legitimate, targetting fraud victims and promising to recover their losses.

The fraudsters would then create convincing financial charts to further build credibility before tricking the victims into divulging their financial details.

Cops arrested the kingpins in a dramatic operation at a luxury villa in Bangkok on February 5.

The team intercepted Li's car as he was leaving the housing estate to meet with an associate. Footage shows officers converging on the sedan and dragging the Chinese man out of the vehicle.

They piled on top of him as he desperately clutched his phone believed to contain incriminating information about the gang's activities. Police then converged on Ye's room, where he had barricaded himself 'to delete data from his devices'.

Authorities said they seized more than 400,000 baht in Thai and foreign currency, and more than 15 million baht in assets, including five smartphones and a luxury Mercedes-Benz.

Police Major General Teeradej Thamsuthee, commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau's Investigation Division, said: ‘Both suspects were 'Big Bosses' who ran call centre operations, scams, and money laundering companies in several neighbouring countries.

‘Recently, they have employed 'SMS sending' methods for their scam. They bought bulk phone numbers, totalling several hundred thousand numbers, to send fraudulent messages.

‘We also found information in their phones granting access to the 'backdoor' of several scamming operations in neighbouring countries.'

Both suspects were charged with illegally providing bank accounts and phone numbers for sale. They have denied the charge.

Thai government chiefs have recently cut off power along the Thai-Myanmar border to starve suspected Chinese boiler room call centre gangs.

The power cut in the former British Crown territory was issued following a National Security Council meeting attended by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

Police are battling call centre scam gangs running rampant in Thailand.

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