The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with 15 public and private sector agencies to coordinate action to prevent and suppress technology-related crimes, including investment scams, and to curb the use of digital assets as a channel for money laundering. The cooperation framework brings together agencies including the Anti-Money Laundering Office, Royal Thai Police, key ministries, the Bank of Thailand, and banking and government financial institution associations. The SEC highlighted its ongoing work to prevent and address digital asset mule accounts, including supporting new measures that strengthen account-blocking and information-sharing mechanisms and introduce requirements for digital asset business operators to share responsibility for investor losses where standards or preventive measures are not met. Operational measures cited include faster blocking of websites or apps operated by foreign digital asset service providers soliciting Thai investors, suspensions of 32,671 digital asset mule accounts with approximately THB 228 million seized (as of 30 September 2025), and referrals on five unlicensed digital asset trading platforms for access blocking, alongside continued public-facing scam reporting support, social media scam takedowns, and alert-sharing through the International Organization of Securities Commissions I-SCAN network.

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