{"id":679,"date":"2022-08-14T15:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/?p=679"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:01:51","slug":"bangkok-chinese-gambling-kingpin-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/679\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok; Chinese gambling Kingpin arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BANGKOK (AFP) &#8211; The authorities in Bangkok have detained a controversial Chinese businessman who is the subject of an international arrest warrant for allegedly running an illegal online casino, Thai police said on Saturday (Aug 13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She Zhijiang, 40, has been on the run from the Chinese authorities since 2012, according to Chinese media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has had controversial mega projects and gaming ventures in Cambodia and at Shwe Kokko in Myanmar&#8217;s Kayin state, as well as a lottery venture in the Philippines, multiple media reports say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thai police said She&#8217;s Thai visa had been cancelled after he was taken into immigration custody on Wednesday night, pending an extradition request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public prosecutor will submit a (provisional arrest) request to the criminal court next week.<\/p>\n<cite>A Thai police official told AFP.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Interpol red notice published May 2021 and obtained by AFP says She is facing criminal charges in China related to running a casino and could face a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bangkok-Arrested-Chinese-Gambler.jpg\" alt=\"She Zhijiang has been on the run from Chinese authorities since 2012. PHOTO: EPA-EFE\" class=\"wp-image-681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bangkok-Arrested-Chinese-Gambler.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bangkok-Arrested-Chinese-Gambler-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bangkok-Arrested-Chinese-Gambler-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">She Zhijiang has been on the run from Chinese authorities since 2012. PHOTO: EPA-EFE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between January 2018 and February 2021, the suspect &#8211; who heads up a &#8220;criminal gang&#8221; &#8211; colluded with others to register companies, and research and develop online gambling platforms, the red notice says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The notice adds that online gambling websites including Hongshulin, Yigou and Yiyou International were set up and 330,000 gamblers were recruited.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The illegal proceeds obtained by She Zhijiang were more than 150 million yuan (S$30.5 million) in total which has been transferred abroad,&#8221; the red notice reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Chinese victim who was scammed out of a substantial sum of money committed suicide, Thai media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The red notice says She has a Cambodian passport but was born in China&#8217;s Hunan province.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frontier Myanmar reported he was granted Cambodian citizenship in 2017 but said the exact circumstances were unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cambodian government can grant citizenship if a person donates at least US$250,000 (S$340,000) to its coffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China and Thailand have an extradition treaty, but the process could take several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK (AFP) &#8211; The authorities in Bangkok have detained a controversial Chinese businessman who is the subject of an international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}