Thai Cyber Police Widen Shuffle.com Probe to 11 Locations

Thailand’s cyber police have widened their investigation into Shuffle.com, the Curaçao-registered crypto casino the government blocked in October, searching 11 locations in Bangkok and the provinces and securing a first prison sentence against one suspect. For the wider legal picture facing Thai players, see our Thailand online gambling hub.

According to a Thairath report dated 5 November 2026, officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) presented the results at a press briefing at a CCIB division office in Muang Thong Thani, Pak Kret, Nonthaburi. TokenPost, reporting on 9 November, said the sentencing took place on Thursday, 5 November, after the suspect admitted the charge.

What police say they found

Thairath and TokenPost both reported that the searches covered 11 sites, that police identified 11 suspects, and that phones and computers were seized. Some suspects admitted wrongdoing and others denied it. Thairath also carried a statement attributed to the Justice Minister referring to three arrests. The reports do not reconcile that figure with the 11 suspects identified, and SafeGamingSites has not been able to confirm which number reflects formal arrests.

One suspect who confessed was sentenced to prison by a magistrates’ court. Neither report gives the length of the sentence or the specific offence. We will update this article if court details are published.

Police also said they had received transaction data from three digital asset exchanges. Neither the police nor the reports we reviewed named those exchanges.

How the case got here

The 5 November operation follows several weeks of action against the site. Bitcoin.com News reported that the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) said on 9 October it had blocked Shuffle.com nationwide. We covered that block and the early inquiry in our earlier report on Thailand blocking Shuffle.com.

At a briefing on 2 November, Pol Maj Gen Siriwat Deepho, who was assigned to oversee the cyber police work, said investigators were relying on Section 5 of the Thai Criminal Code, which covers offences committed partly abroad that have effects in Thailand, according to Bitcoin.com News. Because the operator is based outside the country, he said police intend to build cases against players in Thailand first and then move towards the operator.

The case has also reached parliament. Bitcoin.com reported that Rangsiman Rome, chair of a House committee, said Gulf Binance had flagged two wallets tied to 44 people, involving roughly 3.8 million baht (about US$113,000) across more than 400 transactions. Another lawmaker, Sirichok Sopha, said police told the committee that four of nine licensed Thai digital asset operators had on-chain links to Shuffle. These are statements by legislators about on-chain links, not findings of wrongdoing by any exchange.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has been weighing whether to take the matter on as a special case, Bitcoin.com reported. We found no DSI announcement formally accepting it.

Shuffle’s position

As of Bitcoin.com’s 3 November report, Shuffle had not publicly responded to the police statements, and we have not seen a public statement from the company since. No court has made findings against Shuffle itself. The charges described so far relate to individuals in Thailand.

Why it matters for Thai players

Thai law still prohibits casino gambling outside a small number of state-sanctioned forms such as the government lottery and licensed horse racing, and the proposed entertainment-complex bill remains unresolved. What is new in the Shuffle case is the method: police are using exchange data and on-chain tracing to follow crypto deposits back to local users, and they have said publicly that players are the first target.

That matters because many players assume that funding an offshore account in USDT or bitcoin keeps them outside the reach of local enforcement. Where deposits pass through a licensed Thai exchange, which must verify customer identity under Thai anti-money laundering rules, that assumption does not hold. The DES Ministry, which publishes digital policy and blocking announcements on its official website, has also shown it will block offshore brands at network level.

Across the region the pattern is similar. Malaysia runs a large-scale takedown programme through its communications regulator, and Singapore restricts online betting to Singapore Pools under the Gambling Control Act 2022. In all three markets, authorities are focusing less on offshore operators they cannot easily reach and more on payment rails, domains and the local users they can.

What to watch next

• Whether the court publishes the sentence and charge for the first convicted suspect.
• Whether police name the three exchanges that supplied data, or the exchanges confirm their cooperation.
• Whether the DSI formally accepts the matter as a special case.
• Whether action extends from local suspects to the offshore operator under Section 5.

Thai players: would exchange-level tracing change how you fund an online account, or do you think it will mainly hit large-volume users?

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