DSI Arrests Women Third-Order Mule Accounts Holder of an Online Fake Driver’s License Gang Impersonating Department of Land Transport to Trick Victims into Transferring Money, Expanded the Investigation into Transnational Organized Crime

       On Thursday, May 14, 2026, at approximately 2:20 p.m., the Surveillance and Intelligence Center arrested Miss Ratreerat (surname withheld), a suspect pursuant to Criminal Court arrest warrant no.1381/2569, dated March 9, 2026. The suspect was accused of jointly opening or allowing others to use one’s bank account, electronic money account, electronic card, or electronic money account without intending to use it for oneself or in relation to one’s legitimate business in such a way as to know or ought to have known that it would be used to commit an offense, following the section 9 of the Emergency Decree on Measures for the Prevention and Suppression of Technological Crimes, B.E. 2566 (2023) in conjunction with Section 83 of the Penal Code. The officers arrested the suspect at the condominium grocery in Soi On Nut 46, Nong Bon sub-district, Prawet district, Bangkok.  The officers informed the suspect of her charges and legal rights under the Criminal Procedure Code, as well as the requirement to continuously record a video and audio in the process of the arrest and detention until the suspect is transferred to the special case inquiry officials, and make a detainee record (Por Tor 1) under the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act, B.E. 2565 (2022). The officers informed Miss Aun (surname withheld) the suspect’s mother was notified of an arrest via the Line application. Subsequently, the suspect was handed over to the responsible special case inquiry official in charge of the case for further legal proceedings. 

       The aforementioned case is Special case No. 135/2567 of the Bureau of Technology and Cyber Crime, in which Miss Ratreerat opened bank accounts to receive transfers for other people involved in money laundering. This behavior falls under the criminal offense of opening or allowing others to use one’s bank account, electronic card or electronic money account and phone number in such a way as to know or ought to have known that it would be used to commit a cybercrime involving receive money from fraudulent driver’s license websites. 

       The operation to track and arrest the suspect under the special case arrest warrant was conducted in accordance with the directives of Police Major Yutthana Praedam, Director General of the DSI, and Police Major Jatupol Bongkochmas, Deputy Director General of the DSI. They assigned the Surveillance and Intelligence Center, a unit under the Director General’s direct supervision, to organize operation teams to track and apprehend suspects wanted under arrest warrants, in order to bring the alleged offenders who remain at large to justice.