{"id":47407,"date":"2019-10-22T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47407"},"modified":"2019-10-22T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:28:56","slug":"10-malaysians-nabbed-in-thailand-over-investment-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=47407","title":{"rendered":"10 Malaysians nabbed in Thailand over investment scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>By Linda Khoo<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>BANGKOK, Oct 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Ten Malaysians were arrested in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, last month for allegedly being involved in an investment scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Immigration Police Chief Area 5 (North Provinces) Pol Col Ekkorn Boossababordin said all the suspects had since been charged with illegally working in Thailand and fined 10,000 baht (RM1,382) each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting on a&nbsp;tip-off, police arrested the group on Sept 20 for illegally organising&nbsp;a currency&nbsp;investment seminar targeted at&nbsp;about 100 Chinese tourists and investors, he told a press conference&nbsp;here today. They were charged on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey told the participants to invest in digital currency with promise of hefty profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe syndicate could have raked in over 10 million baht if it had succeeded in luring the victims,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the 10 Malaysians &#8212;&nbsp;five from Kuala Lumpur, two from Selangor and one each from&nbsp;Negeri Sembilan, Sabah and Sarawak &#8212; were deported on Sept&nbsp;25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Linda Khoo BANGKOK, Oct 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Ten Malaysians were arrested in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, last month for allegedly being involved in an investment scam. Deputy Immigration Police Chief Area 5 (North Provinces) Pol Col Ekkorn Boossababordin said all the suspects had since been charged with illegally working in Thailand and fined 10,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":16425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47407"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}