PHUKET: The Phuket Department of Intellectual Property raided the OTOP market in Patong at 4:30pm on Thursday (July 27) and seized 485 counterfeit items said to be worth about B300,000. The raid was led by Phuket Provincial Defence Office Chief Sivach Rawangkul who was joined by Col Anan Yuprasit of the Phuket office of the […]
Police have seized counterfeit US currency with a face value of more than $150,000 (about 5.3 million baht) and arrested four Thais and a Cameroonian in coordinated sting operations with the US Secret Service. The Thai suspects are two women, Tatchanan Kunz, 48, Panissara Taechaissaiadej, 47, and two men, Kittipong Yanawattanapong, 43, and Natchapattarapong Yampradit, […]
Four people, one an air force officer, have been arrested for selling counterfeit dollars in a sting operation set up by Crime Suppression Division police and US Secret Service agents. CSD 1st sub-division chief Pol Col Jirapop Puridet identified the four as Pilot Officer Booncherd Kriswong, 49, of the Royal Thai Air Force signals department; […]
Pattaya police raided the Print Express Store located at 143/84, soi 10, Thepprasit Road in South Pattaya yesterday after receiving information that print shop was a front for counterfeit document printing and other forgeries. After receiving a tip off that the shop was printing fake Russian driving licenses. Read more: Pattaya One
BANGKOK, 3 March 2015 (NNT) – The Department of Intellectual Property is set to begin destroying counterfeit goods in its stance against copyright infringement. The destruction of pirated goods is part of sentencing in over 3,400 copyright infringement cases. Officials reported there are nearly a million items to be destroyed, causing more than 3.7 billion […]
BANGKOK, 4 July 2014 (NNT) – The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has advised people to check their money carefully as 700 counterfeit one-thousand baht notes are believed to have been dispersed. The Chiang Mai Banknote Operation Center of the Bank of Thailand has asked people to check their one-thousand baht notes carefully as counterfeit notes […]
TRANG — Police are warning citizens and tourists in Trang to beware of counterfeit 1,000 baht banknotes circulating around the province. Pol.Maj.Gen. Jirawat Udomsuk, a commander of Trang provincial police, said he has received a number of omplaints about the fake bills in the past week. Read more: khaosod.co.th By Khaosod English
NONG KHAI, 25 June 2014 (NNT) – Immigration police from Nong Khai province have arrested a Laotian man who was found selling fake U.S. dollar bills. 50 year-old Ku Anulak from Laos belonged to a gang responsible for trafficking fake banknotes. However, the middle-aged man has been apprehended by the Immigration Police as he was […]
