\n\tThe Bangkok Post on 30 March 2015, The Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) has seized assets totaling 43 million baht from human traffickers and gangs illegally trading in phayung wood.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tMost of the seized assets belonged to two men, Padoongsak Boonpinij and Sutthipong Chuaypat, who were arrested for smuggling Myanmar migrant workers into Thailand, Amlo deputy secretary-general Suwanee Sawaengpol told a press briefing on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tAn investigation found the men accumulated a combined 31 million baht of deposits in bank accounts and Government Savings Bank lotteries (officially known as premium savings certificates, or PSCs), the proceeds of smuggling illegal migrant workers.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tArrest warrants had been issued for five other individuals allegedly linked to the suspects and police suspected a total of 45 people may have been involved in the human trafficking ring.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tPol Capt Suwanee said other assets were confiscated from more than a dozen members of two gangs involved in smuggling and illegally trading Siamese rosewood (phayung), a protected species, in Amnat Charoen province. The impounded items included a number of vehicles used for transporting illegally harvested phayung timber such as backhoes, trucks, 6-wheel trucks and pickups.
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