BANGKOK — Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has formally taken up the Shuffle.com case and says it is now tracing Thai players before deciding whether to treat it as a special case. The site was blocked in Thailand around 9 October, as covered in our report on the block and the first inquiries. Since then the case has moved from a ministry block and a police check to a multi-agency investigation that includes the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO). We found no public statement from Shuffle on the Thai case.
What the DSI has done
In a statement on its website on 19 October, the DSI said it had registered the matter as inquiry 148/2569, over suspicions that the husband of an MP from Chaiyaphum province may be linked to scam and online-gambling networks. The same day its technology and information division met the Central Investigation Bureau, the cyber crime police bureau and AMLO to share information. On 20 October, Justice Minister Rutthapon Naowarat said the DSI had opened the inquiry on its own initiative on 8 October, that no decision had been made on taking it as a special case, and that the working group would meet again on 26 October, the Bangkok Post reported. The same morning Bhumjaithai MP Suchada Zhang Thaensap and her husband, Zhang Taiyang, met DSI investigators. According to the Bangkok Post and Daily News, she said he had held about 1.4% of the business through a British Virgin Islands company that owns Natural Nine B.V., the Curaçao operator of Shuffle.com, and sold it before she became an MP. She denies wrongdoing.
The legal route
On 21 October DSI investigators told The Standard that the case is being built first under the Computer Crime Act, because the Gambling Act is not among the laws the DSI can use to open a special case, while the computer-crime, anti-money-laundering and technology-crime laws are. If an offence is established, they said, the inquiry would extend to gambling and money-laundering charges. Investigators said the Curaçao registration does not stop them from testing whether an offence took place in Thailand, by looking at how the site was reached, how many Thais played and how much money moved. They plan to identify players through the bank accounts used for deposits and payouts and to summon them for statements. A House committee chaired by Rangsiman Rome has also invited the MP, her husband and several agencies to a hearing on 22 October, Nation TV reported.
Key facts
Case: DSI inquiry 148/2569, opened 8 Oct 2026.
Agencies: DSI, Central Investigation Bureau, cyber crime police and AMLO.
Legal basis so far: Computer Crime Act; gambling and money-laundering laws may follow.
Next dates: House committee hearing 22 Oct; working-group meeting 26 Oct.
Status: not yet a special case; no charges reported as of 21 Oct 2026.
Why it matters for GambleFi
Thailand is testing whether it can reach an offshore crypto casino through the people around it and the players who used it, rather than through the licence holder. Tracing players through bank accounts also shows that Thai users of a blocked site may be drawn in as witnesses. For background on the brand, see our Shuffle project page and the Shuffle risks page. This is a report on an ongoing inquiry, not legal advice; the people named have not been charged.