CHON BURI, May 9 – Police in the Thai seaside resort of Pattaya arrested two Bulgarian men Tuesday as they used counterfeit ATM credit cards to withdraw cash worth millions of baht. Pattaya police chief Pol Lt Col Chiddecha Songhong, heading the anti-transnational crime centre, said the two detainees were identified as Prodanov Georgi Petrov […]
Police raided two major Pattaya shopping malls and seized more than 5 million THB of counterfeit products. The government has ordered the crackdown after the U.S.A. added Thailand to its “Watch List” of countries that violate intellectual property rights by selling counterfeit products. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
Two men were arrested in the Bangkhuntian area of Bangkok for using counterfeit banknotes printed on A4 paper from a computer printer. The fake bills were in 100-baht and 1,000-baht denominations. The men had printed out two batches of fake bills and had been using or selling them before being caught. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
Chonburi Provincial Police conducted a raid of a shop in Soi Beokeow, Central Pattaya on Wednesday evening. The officers were in possession of a search warrant for the shop located at the Grand Hall Market where the manager and staff members were detained by Police who discovered thousands of counterfeit branded items worth millions of […]
BANGKOK, 18 June 2012 (NNT) – The Ministry of Commerce has ordered a crackdown on counterfeit goods around Thailand after receiving complaints from consumers. Ms Patchima Thanasanti, Director-General of the Department Intellectual Property (DIP), revealed that the Commerce Ministry has instructed all provincial DIP offices to suppress counterfeit products that violate intellectual property rights in […]
CHONBURI, April 6 – Five Bulgarians were arrested for using counterfeit credit cards to withdraw money from Thai banks’ automatic teller machines (ATMs), according to the provincial office of the Thailand Transnational Crime Coordination Centre. The five-person gang consisted of three men and two women–Stefan Nikolaev Savovski, 38; Iliyan Alek Sandrov Ininski, 37; Plamen Ivanov […]
Pattaya police arrested 2 Frenchmen using cannabis and a third Frenchman who had been arrested for using fake ATM cards and was released under bail. Pattaya, February 9, 2012 [PDN]: Pol.Lt.Col. Chiddecha Songhong, Pattaya police with his team were notified about two foreigners smoking cannabis near Wicked House Hotel Najomthien beach, Nongprue, Chonburi. The police […]
Over 10 Million Baht’s worth of counterfeit branded items were seized during a raid of a shop located in South Pattaya on Tuesday Night. Police Lieutenant General Panya, Commissioner of Region 2 Police, who is concentrating his efforts on cleaning up Pattaya at this time, announced the seizure of nearly 2,000 individual items. Read more: […]
