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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is happy with the latest effort to tackle Thailand’s chronic problem of lottery overpricing by using technology, government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on Saturday.

As the authorities work to control the price of lottery tickets and make them more easily available, the Government Lottery Office (GLO) is taking steps to prevent tickets from being sold to people below the age of 20.

A group of lottery retailers submitted a letter to the National Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday, claiming that the Government Lottery Office’s (GLO) digital lottery project has affected disabled retailers.

The government will launch new six- and three-digit lotteries this year in a bid to tackle the problems of overpricing and illegal lotto, a PM’s Office minister said on Tuesday.

All 5.17 million digital government lottery tickets were sold out on Monday, five days after going on sale in a new move to combat lottery overpricing.

Digital lottery tickets for the June 16 draw were almost sold out on Sunday after more than 5 million were snapped up via the Pao Tang application.

A senior police officer tasked with tackling the problem of overpriced lottery tickets has vowed to take legal action against all violators “without exception”.

Seksakol Atthawong, a former aide to the prime minister, said on Monday that he has given his final proposal on solving the problem of overpriced government lottery tickets to the PM’s Office sub-committee he chaired.

The owner of Bluedragon, an online lottery selling platform, said on Tuesday that he was confident his platform would not be shut down by the Criminal Court.

Bluedragon executive Pachara Messiyaporn will be charged for allegedly overpricing lottery tickets, National Police chief assistant Pol Lt-General Surachet Hakpal confirmed on Wednesday.

The owner of Bluedragon said on Wednesday that his company should not be blamed for overpriced lottery tickets as it "only provides an online platform for some 39,000 small vendors".

The Government Lottery Office (GLO) revoked the rights of 8,964 sellers on the “Blue Dragon Lottery” platform on Tuesday.