Cops launch blitz on fake-dollar gangs
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2021 8:48 am
The Police Cyber Taskforce (PCT) has joined forces with its US counterparts to crack down on a major fake-dollar gang network, with huge seizures of offset printing machines and thousands of counterfeit $100 bills carried out so far.
Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut Liamsanguan, commander of Investigation Division Provincial Police Region 8 which is also part of the PCT team, told the Bangkok Post that this was the biggest crackdown on a dollar bill forgery gang since 2012.
A total of 40 legal cases has resulted from fake dollar bill crackdowns since then. The seized banknotes were mostly printed in the series 2006 and 2006A.
In the operation, police managed to arrest suspects involved, ranging from dealers, coordinators, employers to banknote printers.
Police also confiscated three high-quality offset printing machines, filling a long-time gap since police last seized a press in Bangkok's Sai Mai district in 2016, said Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut.
During July to September, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, in his capacity as the director of the taskforce, and Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut coordinated with Christopher Rohde, head of the US Secret Service in Bangkok, after the agencies became aware of increased banknote forgeries in Thailand.
The collaboration stemmed from a source who said most banknote forgery took place in the Southeast Asia.
Mr Rohde said a tip-off led police to the crackdown, resulting in the arrest of eight wrongdoers and seizure of many printing presses.
Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut said the PCT worked with Metropolitan Police to crack down on the gang, which was later expanded to a raid on a factory in Bang Len district of Nakhon Pathom and the seizure of 36,000 counterfeit $100 bills -- worth around 100 million baht
bangkokpost.com
Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut Liamsanguan, commander of Investigation Division Provincial Police Region 8 which is also part of the PCT team, told the Bangkok Post that this was the biggest crackdown on a dollar bill forgery gang since 2012.
A total of 40 legal cases has resulted from fake dollar bill crackdowns since then. The seized banknotes were mostly printed in the series 2006 and 2006A.
In the operation, police managed to arrest suspects involved, ranging from dealers, coordinators, employers to banknote printers.
Police also confiscated three high-quality offset printing machines, filling a long-time gap since police last seized a press in Bangkok's Sai Mai district in 2016, said Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut.
During July to September, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, in his capacity as the director of the taskforce, and Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut coordinated with Christopher Rohde, head of the US Secret Service in Bangkok, after the agencies became aware of increased banknote forgeries in Thailand.
The collaboration stemmed from a source who said most banknote forgery took place in the Southeast Asia.
Mr Rohde said a tip-off led police to the crackdown, resulting in the arrest of eight wrongdoers and seizure of many printing presses.
Pol Maj Gen Naphanwut said the PCT worked with Metropolitan Police to crack down on the gang, which was later expanded to a raid on a factory in Bang Len district of Nakhon Pathom and the seizure of 36,000 counterfeit $100 bills -- worth around 100 million baht
bangkokpost.com