Thread: DSI to question friend of Kong Salak Plus CEOs over ฿100m bank transfer

Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has issued a summons for the questioning of a business associate of Kong Salak Plus CEO Panthawat Nakvisut, over about 100 million baht found in his bank account.


A DSI official said that they have checked Panthawat’s eight impounded bank books and found that some of the transactions were linked to his business associate, Tantai Narongkoon.


According to the Anti-Money Laundering Office, the funds were deposited in the Government Savings Bank’s bank account belonging to Panthawat and was ultimatelytransferred to Tantai’s account.


The two men have been business partners in lottery distribution investments for a long time and the DSI suspect that Panthawat transferred the 100 million baht to Tantai in an attempt to conceal its source.


DSI officials said that no money has ever been transferred from Tantai to Panthawat’s bank account, hence the need to question Tantai.

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17 indicted in connection with the Kong Salak Plus online lottery platform

Kong Salak Plus CEO Panthawat Nakvisut was among 17 suspects indicted today (Friday) by public prosecutors on charges of operating an online gambling platform and money laundering.


Pongsathorn Inamnuay, director of Department of Special Investigation’s centre for illegal narcotics cases, said that the attorney-general had approved the indictments of 41 suspects, but only 17, including Panthawat, appeared in the Criminal Court for indictment, adding that four others are currently being held on remand and the remainder are at large.


He said that the 17 defendants were indicted today on money laundering after one of them allegedly took winning lottery tickets to claim 53 million baht from the Government Lottery Office.


He also said that most of those indicted were linked to “Suthin”, allegedly the head of the network responsible for finding “mule” accounts, in which to keep deposits from online gamblers.


Panthawat denied all the charges against him and vowed to fight the case in court. He was later freed on bail.


Pongsathorn, however, said that the DSI has sufficient evidence against Panthawat.


The Kong Salak Plus lottery office, a popular commission free online lottery platform, was ordered closed down by the court in February, after it was found to have sold overpriced lottery tickets and sold tickets to people under 20, which is against the law.


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