In raids across four districts, the Thai police dismantled a mixed fraud ring known as Lock Star and arrested two Chinese nationals and four Thais on charges of unlawful assembly, conspiracy to participate in a transnational criminal organization, public fraud, entering misinformation into computer systems and money laundering. The operation also seized cash and other assets worth about 30 million baht. It is reported that the scammers are suspected of using a fake program called Tidex to defraud investors of their cryptocurrencies by promising high returns, and then selling and exchanging them for Thai baht.