Bangkok: "Prasert" expects the two Cyber Security Acts to be announced in the Royal Gazette soon, admitting that he wants them to be used before Songkran, calling them an important measure to crack down on call center gangs. Mr. Prasert Jantararuangthong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Economy and Society, revealed that on April 9, the Cabinet meeting approved the draft Royal Decree on Measures to Prevent and Suppress Technology Crime (No. ..) B.E. .... and the draft Royal Decree on Digital Asset Business (No. ...), both of which are important measures to suppress cybercrime, especially the call center gang. If announced in the Government Gazette, it will be effective immediately. It is expected that it will be announced in the Government Gazette soon. He wanted it to be announced before Songkran.
According to Thai News Agency, the draft that the Cabinet approved has been revised from the original draft in many aspects, but does not leave out important principles, such as the participation of financial institutions, operators, platforms, or the issue of refunding victims, which can be done more quickly. This will be the authority of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), including the issue of increasing penalties for offenders who sell personal information. As for the draft of the Digital Asset Business Act (No. ...), it requires foreign digital asset operators who conduct transactions in Thailand to have regulatory measures, whereas previously there was none. From now on, money resulting from wrongdoing that flows into digital assets will have to be investigated.
In the case of the incident of young people being tricked into transferring money on April 8, can the bank freeze the money? Mr. Prasit said that if the law is announced, the bank can freeze it because it is written that if there is a suspicious account, the financial transaction can be frozen.