Bangkok: TCSD 1 confirms that it will expedite the investigation of the suspects in the 'Minnie' gambling website case, sending them to the prosecutor in early July. The commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division 1 confirmed that he will expedite the interrogation of the suspects in the "Minnie" gambling website case and will send the case to the prosecutor by early July after the prosecutor returned the case to interrogate the suspects on 10 additional points regarding the financial trail.
According to Thai News Agency, thirty suspects involved in the gambling and money laundering network of Ms. Thanyanun or Minnie, who were temporarily released after the police were unable to complete the case in time according to the detention period on May 28, were summoned to meet with investigators at the Technology Crime Investigation Division 1 today again to provide statements about the financial trail to be used in the case to be sent to the special prosecutor's office as requested.
Pol. Col. Sirawat Deepo, commander of the Technology Crime Investigation Division 1, revealed that after investigators sent the case file to prosecutors totaling more than 1,800 pages on May 26, the special prosecutor returned the case file for investigators to further question on 10 issues, with a focus on the financial trail.
He also confirmed that the reason the prosecutor returned the case, causing the investigator to be unable to complete the case within the time frame, resulting in all the suspects being released, was not a conflict between the two agencies, but rather the prosecutor's opinion that he wanted the investigator to further question the suspects on some issues, including questioning related witnesses in several provinces, which has been almost complete, with only enough left to question the suspects who were summoned today.
As for whether the suspect will come to the appointment or not, it is the suspect's right. If they do not come to the appointment, they may consider requesting 3 arrest warrants. It was confirmed that the lawyer for Ms. Thanyanun or Minnie has coordinated to meet the investigator today. However, this morning, it was not found that she has come to meet the investigator. Only some of the suspects in the case have come to meet the investigator, 5 people, and some have written a written request to postpone the appointment to give information to the investigator until a later time. There is still no report that Ms. Thanyanun or Minnie has come to meet the investigator.
For the gambling website case, all 30 suspects were charged with jointly organizing gambling or harming others, helping to announce in public or directly or indirectly inviting others to gamble or bet on electronic media without permission from officials, money laundering and colluding by agreeing with 2 or more people to commit money laundering and committing money laundering because of colluding, and colluding to gamble online.