BANGKOK, June 7 – About 4,000 people blacklisted for financially supporting terrorists in Thailand will be thoroughly scrutinised before legal action is taken against them, a senior official said today. Seehanat Prayoonrat, Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) secretary general, said some names in the list were lifted after officials found their innocence. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 23 April 2013 (NNT) – The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has agreed to remove Thailand from its list of nations identified as Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) deficient. Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnok held a press conference today during which he indicating that Thailand is no longer […]
BANGKOK, Feb 27 – The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed Thailand from the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF) blacklist after the country has made significant progress to tackle the issues, a senior Thai official said today. Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) secretary general Sihanart Prayoonrat said the FATF made a preliminary decision […]
Bangkok Immigration Police have launched a crackdown on immigrant beggars and pickpockets who pray on distracted shoppers at the famous Chatuchak weekend open-air market. Thirteen suspects have been arrested, blacklisted and to be expatriated back to their home countries. The Immigration Police raided the Chatuchak (JJ) Weekend Market on Saturday. Read more: TAN Network
The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), an international money-laundering watchdog, on Thursday added Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ghana and Tanzaniato its blacklist of nations that fail to meet international standards. Thailand’s Anti Money Laundering Office Secretary-General Seehanart Prayoonrat said the agency had tried to cooperate with draft laws on this. He attributed the […]
Journalists from Danish public broadcaster DR have been allegedly blacklisted by India. The news came out on February 1 after award-winning investigative journalist Tom Heinemann was denied a visa by the Indian Embassy in Copenhagen. The immediate trigger was said to be the broadcast of a documentary series “Blood, sweat and T-shirts”, which shows the […]
BANGKOK, 3 January 2012 (NNT) – The prime minister of Thailand has affirmed with the Lower House that the appointment of a new minister to PM’s office, whose name is on the US blacklist, is legitimate. The queries on newly-appointed PM’s Office Minister Nalinee Thavisin have been raised again during the House of Representatives meeting […]
BANGKOK, 23 January 2012 (NNT) – The Democrat Party is challenging Mrs. Nalinee Taveensin, the new Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, to publicly condemn the U.S. for blacklisting her in order to prove the matter as inaccurate. According to the report, Mrs. Nalinee has been on the U.S blacklist for her business affiliations with […]
