{"id":45982,"date":"2019-10-12T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45982"},"modified":"2019-10-12T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:59:21","slug":"thai-police-nab-vietnamese-crypto-currency-scammer-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45982","title":{"rendered":"Thai Police Nab Vietnamese Crypto-Currency Scammer At Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BANGKOK, Oct 12 (NNN-TNA) &#8211; Thai police announced that, Thai authorities have arrested a Vietnamese crypto-currency suspect, at Bangkok&#8217;s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, for allegedly scamming many Thais into believing they could make purchases of digital currency called OneCoin instead of Thai baht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said OneCoin was a fake digital currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang, commander of the Thai Immigration Bureau, said, the Vietnamese suspect was on the international criminal blacklist, when he tried to leave Thailand on Oct 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ngoc (the suspect)&#8217;s passport raised alarms, as his facial appearance bore physical resemblance to the suspect, sought by Vietnamese and Thai authorities,&#8221; said Sompong. &#8220;Therefore we at the Immigration conducted a bio-metric scan on Ngoc. After that, Ngoc admitted that he was the scammer for OneCoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ngoc confessed to working with seven other fraudsters, including Thai and Vietnamese, in deceiving people to invest in OneCoin, said Sompong.&#8211; NNN-TNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK, Oct 12 (NNN-TNA) &#8211; Thai police announced that, Thai authorities have arrested a Vietnamese crypto-currency suspect, at Bangkok&#8217;s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, for allegedly scamming many Thais into believing they could make purchases of digital currency called OneCoin instead of Thai baht. Police said OneCoin was a fake digital currency. Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}