The Cybercrime Board has approved sharing information on "mule accounts" with gold shops and non-bank financial institutions to prevent money laundering, alongside plans to reduce daily transaction limits for youth accounts aged 12-18 to 10,000 baht after identifying over 6,500 mule accounts among them.
Chaiyachon Chidchob, Minister of Digital Economy and Society (DES) revealed after the meeting of the Technology Crime Prevention and Suppression Committee under the Technology Crime Prevention and Suppression Act B.E. 2566 (2023) on 7 May 2026, in collaboration with relevant agencies, that the meeting approved additional measures to share mule account data covering dark mule accounts, dark gray, light gray, and brown mule accounts totaling 3.56 million accounts. This data will be shared with new channels potentially used for laundering fraud proceeds, including non-bank financial institutions, foreign exchange businesses, and gold traders.
Additionally, the meeting discussed protecting bank accounts of youths aged 12-18, noting that about 6,500 accounts (out of the 3.56 million) fall under mule accounts. It may impose a daily transaction limit of 10,000 baht, down from about 30,000 baht currently, to prevent damage while not hindering efforts to encourage saving among youths.
Police Lieutenant General Jiraphop Puridej, Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Thai Police, shared interesting data that there are currently 3.56 million mule accounts in the system, categorized by risk level as follows:
Dark mule accounts Accounts that have been frozen and are under prosecution, about 829,200 accounts.
Dark gray mule accounts Accounts currently under investigation, about 750,800 accounts.
Light gray mule accounts Accounts reported by banks, about 456,800 accounts.
Brown mule accounts Accounts detected by banks with money flow linked to mule accounts, about 1,500,000 accounts.
Due to heavy crackdowns over the past six months, police have frozen over 40 billion baht of scammed funds, reducing daily losses to the public from 70-80 million baht to 40-50 million baht.
Wittaya Neethitham, Deputy Secretary-General of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) disclosed that AMLO is processing refunds to scam victims. After returning 20 billion baht, under the Technology Crime Prevention and Suppression Act B.E. 2566 (2023), 8 billion baht remains frozen and is expected to be gradually returned to victims by the end of 2026.
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