KUALA LUMPUR (July 23): Thailand police have detained Malaysian businessman and MBI Group founder Tedy Teow Wooi Huat for alleged money laundering after discovering he used money from an online gambling business to build an entertainment complex on a 100-rai site in Songkhla.

In a report on Saturday (July 23), the Bangkok Post said that on Friday, Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn, assistant chief of the national police, together with officers from Sadao Provincial Police Station in Songkhla, raided the premises of an MBI Group company in Sadao district by the Thai-Malaysian border.