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The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry, police and related agencies have been tasked with tackling gambling websites in a bid to mitigate their impact on children and society.

The Thai and Cambodian governments will sign a memorandum of understanding soon to crack down on call-centre scammers and operators of online gambling dens, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Two Thai women were arrested on Saturday for allegedly running an online gambling network from a luxury condominium in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district.

The Foundation for Consumers on Monday urged the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to check and punish telecommunication companies that allow online gambling and loan websites to lure consumers to use their service.

Immigration police raided an illegal online gambling operation at Bangkok’s Royal City Avenue on Friday, arresting 13 people including its Chinese and Thai masterminds.

The Police Cyber Taskforce on Wednesday raided a house in Soi Puttanawithi of Bangkok’s Phra Khanong district after a tip-off that it was being used as the base of a gambling website called “DDPoker”.

Nineteen suspects have been arrested in a police operation dubbed “Shadow App Operation” against an online gambling application across seven provinces, with three others still on the run, National Police chief Pol General Suwat Jangyodsvisit told a press conference on Wednesday, following a crackdown by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau.

Three people suspected of organising illegal online gambling in Bangkok's Bang Kapi district were arrested on Saturday by Patrol and Special Operations Division police officers.

Police raided four sites from where an online gambling network was being operated in Bangkok, Nakhon Ratchasima and Sa Kaew provinces on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society has shut down 1,457 URLs of websites suspected of running online gambling, and arrested 140 offenders involved in those websites, with estimated rotating money of more than Bt21.7 billion, minister Buddhipongse Punnakanta said.

National police chief Pol General Suwat Jangyodsuk held a press conference on Tuesday (October 13) to announce the arrest of four men for allegedly running online gambling websites.

The prime minister has ordered the Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry to block 1,202 online gambling websites within 15 days, Anucha Burapachaisri, spokesman for the Office of Prime Minister, said.