Commander Tawan took a deep breath to calm her inner turmoil after the longest meeting of her life was done. She plopped down on the swivel chair and tossed the thick confidential files that her captain had given her onto the table. She closed her eyes briefly and focus her sight to the landing airplane at Don Mueang International airport which is close to their base, The Royal Thai Air Force Special Operations Regiment or Air Force Commando is the tier-one special forces in the Royal Thai Air Force Regiment's Special Combat Operations Squadron, which has been in existence since late 1975 and And Tawan had never been prouder of herself for being part of that special forces.
She then opened her drawer and pulled her favorite pistol;, The Browning Hi-Power and began to disassemble it for cleaning even though its .40 S&W caliber was already shining. It’s her personal way to soothe herself and to recall what just happened.
Since childhood, it has been her dream to be part of the armed forces, so after high school, she enlisted, and after many years of hardship and suffering, she has attained the title of Wing Commander of the RTAF: 1st Security Force Battalion, The King's Guard, a part of the air force ground force that received specialized training in combat, counter-sabotage, and defense reconnaissance.
She is responsible for leading a wing that consists of three squadrons, each containing twenty planes. They are highly skilled professionals with extensive training and experience, and they play a critical role in the success of military operations. So why on Earth did her captain assign her to be a bodyguard for a socialite actress who is undoubtedly spoiled rotten to the core?
For several hours, her jaw was clenched during the meeting, but she managed to remain professional. For many decades, the Government and Kingdom of Thailand undertook multiple missions to dismantle the most significant group leading the insurgency in the southern part of the country, the BRN. That terrorist has no constructive cultural or nationalistic goals; instead, its immediate aim is to make southern Thailand ungovernable, particularly the Historical Patani Region. It has been largely successful in creating and sustaining an atmosphere of terror and uncertainty through well-trained secret militant units that carry out assassinations, bombings, calculated destruction, and guerrilla warfare.
The extremist ideology will never see the light of day without support and funding, so aside from combat missions, it has become a priority for the higher-ups to check on the people who support the group from behind. It took them a very long time to infiltrate; countless lives of brave colleagues were sacrificed before they obtained classified information. The Commander in Chief along with the King were keeping tabs on the development of it and now, the success of the mission rests on her shoulders. It is a heavy responsibility that she is facing now with courage and determination.
They've discovered that by using casinos, the group can launder money by purchasing chips with illegal funds, gambling, and then cashing out, thereby creating a legal transaction history. This allows the money to go through the casino and creates a believable paper trail of how the money was obtained legally. Using different aliases or usernames across transactions and visiting various sites or counters to cash chips in and out are some of the warning signs associated with money laundering in gambling.
And they have a list of suspects that need to be investigated. The only problem is that due to the complexity and secrecy of the group, they only have the name, Maisuri. This is the man who operates illegal gambling, and after a lengthy surveillance, it was discovered that he has no family except for a niece named Ira, the child of his already deceased sibling.
