More than 1,000 populace were under arrest as well as $30,000 was confiscated in Thailand. The populaces arrested were charge with Online gambling on Euro 2008 football game matches. There were 831 punters, 192 bookies, as well as 75 others among them.

As for the confiscated cash, the sum is very little in contrast with the estimate by research business Kasikom which projected those Thai gamblers would gamble $1.2 billion.
As the police statement, added investigations would cause the prosecution of the main Online gambling operators.

With Online gambling banned in Thailand, police prepared a special squad to keep a watch on main Online gambling criminal on the national scale. In agreement with the law, Online gamblers can be fined 1,000 baht or imprisoned for up to one year.

However, lots of Thais attempt to avoid the forbid by going to Cambodia as well as Myanmar.