Thailand: Police believe about one billion rupees were circulated in the makeshift casino.
Asia Hotel in Chonburi’s Bang Lamung district was raided just after midnight on Monday and also led to the arrest of four Thai men, two Thai women and four Myanmar women who allegedly served as card dealers.
Chonburi police chief Pol Maj-General Kampol Leelapraphaporn told reporters after the arrests that police had received a tip-off that many Indian tourists had checked into the hotel on Saturday and were scheduled to check out on Monday.When police arrived, they found the 83 Indian nationals, 71 of them men, playing Baccarat and Black Jack.
She said they were charged 50,000 baht each, which covered airfare, food, airport-hotel transfers as well as hotel rooms. She said she had instructed the hotel to keep the convention hall off-limits for its staff.The tourists reportedly played cards from 1pm to dawn during their stay at the hotel.
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