Authorities are ramping up their crackdown on foreign criminals who arrive in the guise of tourists and use Thailand as their base for committing crimes. Thai Government Intensifies Crackdown on Foreign Criminals to Protect Tourism Pol Lt Gen Surapong Thanomjit, commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 8, said the government has instructed the Royal Thai […]
The Thai national police chief ordered police officers in Chonburi to crack down on foreign criminals following the abduction and dismemberment of German real estate broker Hans Peter Mack. Pattaya Police Launch Major Anti-crime Operation Specifically Targeting Foreign Criminals The order requested that all officers put their best efforts into capturing criminals and intercepting illegal […]
UBON RATCHATHANI, Nov 28 (TNA) – Police arrested a man, 41, for assaulting and raping a woman and found he had been jailed for four times. Surveillance camera footage in Ubon Ratchathani municipality showed the man, identified as Pan, followed the woman who was reaching her motorcycle at a public park. The man kicked her […]
Myanmar authorities conducted raids at entertainment venues, hotels, resorts and residential communities in the Lahu tribe-influenced area of Nayao, near the Thai-Myannar border opposite Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang district on Sunday evening- and rounded up 81 Thai nationals who had illegally entered the country. Chiang Rai Immigration superintendent Pol Colonel Ekkorn Busababodin said on […]
BANGKOK (Sputnik) — Four Russians wanted for serious offences at home have been arrested in Thailand and will be extradited to Russia soon, Thai immigration police chief Nathorn Phrosunthorn said Thursday. The police general told reporters in Bangkok all four were international fugitives wanted by Interpol on charges of police assault, battery, organized crime and […]
Immigration Bureau police are looking to better regulate expatriates who have been living in Thailand long enough to have become influential figures in major tourist districts. Many are transnational criminals hiding in Thailand whose real identities are revealed only after they’ve been arrested. Full story: Bangkok Post WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM, BANGKOK POST
THAILAND’S role as a haven for transnational criminals has been reconfirmed with the separate arrests in Bangkok of criminals on the run from India, Hungary and China. Pol Lt General Nutthorn Prawsunthorn, commissioner of Immigration Police, said yesterday that Indian authorities and Interpol had alerted his bureau about Chadreshkumar Rameshbhai Patel, 40, the alleged leader […]
A Japanese lawyer, wanted for a Bt4 billion stock fraud case in his home country nearly a decade ago, was arrested in Bangkok’s Chaeng Wattana area on Wednesday, while a Slovakian former hospital executive who was wanted for a Bt10.9 million embezzlement case back home was nabbed in Surat Thani’s Koh Samui. Immigration Police Thursday […]
