Twenty Chinese citizens were arrested in two raids in Pattaya and were charged with opening websites to deceive their compatriots in China.

INDONESIA’S flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has filed a lawsuit against Rolls Royce Plc and Rolls Royce Total Care Service Limited for 640.94 billion rupiah (US$42.95 million) for alleged fraud concerning an agreement signed when Emirsyah Satar, who was later named a corruption suspect, was president director of the company.

National police chief Pol General Chakthip Chaijinda has ordered three policemen temporarily discharged from the civil service after they were accused of involvement in a massive fraud and embezzlement case in Loei.

Fraud suspect Pasit “Sinsae Shogun” Ariyalapit was sentenced on Wednesday by the primary court to a total of 4,355 years in prison plus a Bt20,000 fine, although under Thai law she would actually serve only 20 years behind bars as the maximum prison term for the offences.

Five Chinese suspects in three separate fraud and loan shark cases, who had obtained around 3.43 billion yuan (about Bt17.15 billion) from their compatriot victims and had fled to Thailand, had been arrested, Immigration Police Bureau deputy commissioner Maj Gen Itthipol Itthisaranachai told a press conference on Thursday.

Another warning has been issued about fraudsters using a "romance scam” to prey on more than 100 victims and extracting around Bt69 million.

A Chon Buri man has been arrested for deceiving 89 victims into transferring him money for the cost of packaging products he failed to make as promised.

Police will this week summon witnesses to provide additional information for the investigation into an alleged Bt800-million bitcoin investment scam, while key suspect Parinya Jaravijit has sent a letter through his lawyer requesting postponement of the date for him to hear the charge of colluding in fraud, the deputy chief of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) said on Tuesday.

Police have arrested an alleged fraudster who claimed that his company was contracted by the United Nations to provide Bt1 million financial support to Thai farmers.

ACTOR JIRATPISIT “Boom” Jaravijit and his sibling, Thanasit Jaravijit, yesterday acknowledged charges of colluding in fraud. The charges were filed by the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) as part of their investigation into an alleged Bt800-million bitcoin investment scam.

South Korea's police reached the tentative conclusion that some 2,600 people lost a total of about 9 billion won after investing in the fraudulent Shinil Group that claimed to have found a sunken Russian warship loaded with gold.

International insurance companies have warned the government that they will stop issuing travel insurance policies for tourists visiting Nepal from September 1 if it does not move to eliminate insurance fraud hatched by brokers in trekking and mountaineering agencies.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is seeking extradition of four Singapore citizens on the charge of deceiving around 250 victims to trade in a fake firm and lose some Bt235 million, a deputy DSI chief said.

Donald Trump stood accused of conspiring to commit campaign finance fraud and two of his closest aides faced jail time Tuesday, after court proceedings delivered a legal and political one-two punch to his embattled presidency.

Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax and bank fraud Tuesday, in the first trial resulting from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.