Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society disclosed that it blocked 945,075 gambling-related URLs in fiscal year 2026, with 835,207 of those blocked by court order and 109,868 through platform cooperation. The figure was given by a deputy government spokesperson on 11 October 2026 and corroborated by Gambling.com and ASEAN NOW, though no primary MDES gazette notice confirming the total has been located. Separately, Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission and the Anti-Money Laundering Office opened a joint investigation into whether licensed digital-asset businesses adequately managed transactions potentially linked to online gambling, disclosed around 15 October 2026 and reported via a single press account, with the legal basis sitting in the Emergency Decree on Digital Asset Businesses B.E. 2561 (2018), under which SEC and AMLO jointly review digital-asset operator AML adequacy for gambling-linked flows. No finding or sanction has yet resulted from that investigation. Taken together, a sustained, court-backed blocking programme operating at near-million-URL scale and a new multi-agency probe into gambling-linked crypto transaction handling indicate an administratively robust enforcement posture against unlicensed gambling, sustained even though no new legislative instrument was enacted.