Aranyaprathet: An Indian man walked from Poipet to Thailand with 15.7 million baht in cash, claiming that he had been gambling. Officials are investigating, fearing that it may be related to a call center.
According to Thai News Agency, a 47-year-old Indian man was detained by the Immigration Police of Sa Kaeo Province and officers from the Aranyaprathet Customs Checkpoint while he was carrying a large backpack and walking across the Klong Luek border checkpoint from Poipet, Cambodia into Thailand at the Aranyaprathet Immigration Checkpoint’s arrival terminal. An inspection found a large amount of cash in the backpack, totaling 15.7 million Thai baht, which Mr. A claimed was money he had won from gambling at a casino in Poipet, Cambodia.
But this behavior is considered as smuggling cash into the country by bringing it in without declaring it to customs. Therefore, it is possible that it may be money that was obtained illegally or is involved with the call center gang. The police therefore charged him with ‘smuggling money into the Kingdom without declaring the details of the money to customs officers while passing through customs’ and took him to the legal officers of Aranyaprathet Customs Checkpoint for legal proceedings. From now on, the police investigation team will investigate and expand the source of this money.