Irish arrested in Bangkok fraud raids
Police arrested 81 foreigners - 10 of whom were Irish - in raids on two "boiler room" stock trading companies in Bangkok yesterday and confiscated assets worth an estimated £4m.
Officers from the US FBI and the Australian police joined Thai officers in raids on offices in the Thai capital’s business district.
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