A Thai man has been arrested in connection with the sale of 200,000 SIM cards to a fraud ring

A Thai man was arrested Sunday for allegedly selling more than 200,000 SIM cards to a call center gang in Poipet, Cambodia.

Thailand's Nation newspaper identified the suspect as Pattharapol, 34, whose last name was kept secret. He was arrested by local police at a roadside checkpoint in Sanam Chai Khet district in Thailand's North Willow province.

Police said Patarapong was wanted on an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court on April 25 last year.

Arrest warrants have been issued after police cracked down on a Chinese call centre ring. The gang had transferred about 10 million baht from the accounts of a retired government official. Arrested gang members revealed that Patarapong allegedly provided them with SIM cards to make fraudulent calls.

Patarapong was charged with committing a cross-border crime, conspiring with others to defraud the public, impersonating others to commit fraud, and entering false information into a computer system to cause harm to the public.

Police said they had been monitoring Pataraporn after receiving information that he had crossed the border from Cambodia to Bangkok.

They also discovered he was separately wanted for allegedly opening mule bank accounts for the call center ring.

Patarapong admitted to police that in the past year he sold more than 200,000 SIM cards to the call centre gang in Poipet and recruited others to sell more than 200 mule bank accounts to the gang.