PATTANI, Dec 6 – Bombs exploded at two Pattani municipality automatic teller machine booths in Pattani municipality, wounding one passer-by. A person wearing a muslim woman’s headscarf (hijab) was seen placing a one-kilogramme bomb at the Krung Thai Bank on Phipit Road in Pattani municipality and returning to a waiting motorcycle. MCOT
Two Frenchmen with stolen ATM card codes arrested in South Pattaya. The criminals modus operandi: “Something wrong with my ATM card. May I have a look at yours?” September 19, 2011 (PDN) Pol.Lt. Pallop Ringrod, Pattaya police was informed about a foreigner stealing ATM password codes from tourists in Soi 5 in front of Central […]
Four Hmong men were apprehended while trying to deposit some Bt5 million they allegedly earnt from smuggling ya ba (amphetamines) at a bank in Chiang Dao, police said Monday. Police presented the four at a press conference: Noppadol Songsitthicharoen, 33, Wanwichit Chatnapalai, 29, Charin Songsawatwong, 31, and Wongsakorn Phupakampanat, 30, along with Baht 3.599 million […]
Transnational Crime Suppression Police, based at Pattaya Police Station have arrested a Russian couple accused of credit card fraud. A Third man though to be from UK is still at large and is being sought by Police. On Tuesday Afternoon, the Police Unit were made aware of a Russian Man who attempted to buy Gold […]
Pattaya Police and Chonburi Police arrested an Algerian man for using fake ATM cards to withdraw large amounts of money from ATM machines in Phuket and Pattaya. Pattaya, July 6, 2011, (PDN), Police.Col. Teerapon Jindaluang of Chonburi Provincial Police and Chonburi Police released the news of the arrest of Mr Abdelmalek Boukemara, 35, Algerian national, […]
A Ukrainian and two Turkish nationals, accused of being part of a gang of credit-card thieves, were arrested in Bangkok’s Siam Paragon shopping mall yesterday. Police say Andrew Salkosky, 40, from Ukraine, and Kardial Karamen, 33, and Oske Gildiarim, 28, both of Turkey, were taken into custody along with 40 credit cards and some brand-name […]
BANGKOK, 22 March 2011 (NNT) – All commercial banks will be able to adjust their ATM related service fees down by the end of this month as they have agreed in their meeting late last year, according to the Bank of Thailand (BoT). BoT Deputy Governor for Financial Institutions Stability Krirk Vanikkul stated that the […]
Thirty-nine financial institutions agreed yesterday to let customers duped into wiring money to gangsters via ATMs to contact their call centres to cancel the transfers. Seehanat Prayoonrat, chief of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), said after meeting with the institutions’ representatives that the victims often realised they were fooled right after they had transferred the […]
