THAILAND is launching five measures to step up suppression of transnational crime in Cambodia, which was named in a UN report as one of the world’s largest global crime centres, with these including cutting off electricity supply, Internet connection and export of oil and other goods to Cambodia, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon.
Speaking after chairing a meeting at Government House Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said clear results are expected to emerge within three months of launching the five measures with transnational crime in Cambodia causing over 600 billion baht of damage each year.
The five measures are as follows:
(1) Security:
– Increase the number of troops along Thai-Cambodian border;
– Limit opening hours of border checkpoints;
– Prohibit foreign tourists from gambling along the border.
(2) Cybercrimes:
– Investigate mule accounts and financial routes of call centre gangs;
– Cut off the Internet to Cambodia via underwater connection, except for humanitarian agencies;
– Cooperate with the Anti-Money Laundering Office in seizing/freezing assets and boycott money launderers.
(3) Economy and export:
– Suspend the export of risky goods such as oil, SIM cards, phones and generators;
– Ban the import of cassava from Cambodia;
– Issue measures to help farmers and SMEs along the border.
(4) Drugs
– Use technology to stop smuggling along the border;
– Cooperate with the United States in using modern search equipment;
– Strictly control precursors for drug production.
(5) Foreign affairs
– Promote Thailand as a regional crime suppression centre;
– Seriously pressure Cambodia to solve the problem;
– Coordinate with the UN, the US, China, and global intelligence networks to track assets.
Urgent goals within three months
– Reduce the number of police complaints;
– Seize assets of criminal gangs;
– Prosecute transnational gangs in a tangible manner.
The Prime Minister emphasized that this is a national agenda that must be urgently and decisively implemented. The government will not allow Thailand to fall victim to transnational crime any longer.
Graft agency probing Prime Minister
In another development, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) unanimously resolved to accept a preliminary investigation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for allegedly violating ethical standards in the release of an audio clip of her conversation with former Cambodian prime minister and current Senate President Hun Sen on the current tension along the Thai Cambodian border.
In conducting an initial fact-finding investigation, the audio tape will be transcribed and also translated into foreign languages and relevant witnesses questioned.
Moreover, legal issues surrounding the case against former prime minister Srettha Thavisin who was ruled by the Constitutional Court as unqualified to run the country for appointing Mr. Phichit Chuenban as minister to the Prime Minister’s Office will be carefully studied.
In addition, facts of the Constitutional Court having accepted a case against Paetongtarn on grounds of allegedly violating ethics as filed by a group of senators will also be verified within 10 days.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra attending a meeting at Government House today, June 24, 2025. PhotoS: Amarin TV
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