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Tourist Police arrested a Nigerian on Thursday for involvement in an alleged international romance scam that appears to have netted Bt16 million. Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau, said ATM cards, bank pass books, a mobile phone and a computer were seized when Light Chinezurum
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Tourist police are hunting for conspirators in a “romance scam” gang after they arrested a 32-year-old Nigerian who allegedly lured a Thai woman in Lampang province into wiring him nearly Bt100,000. Tourist Police Bureau deputy commissioner Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakparn said in a press conference yesterday that the suspect, Emery Henry
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SA KAEO: Two Nigerians who had made their way through Vietnam and Cambodia and into Thailand without visas were caught and charged with illegal entry after a car chase near the border late on Monday afternoon. The incident began about 4.30pm when a squad from the 12th Ranger Regiment’s special task
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, police are rounding up members of a gang of foreigners accused of running a “romance scam”. Accomplices are being sought after two Nigerians were arrested on Wednesday. Tourist Police Deputy Commissioner Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal said Emeka Celestine Eze, 31, was apprehended at a condominium
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Immigration police have arrested four Nigerians for overstaying tourist visas and charged them with being involved in a criminal network conducting romance scams. The arrest was announced yesterday at a press conference at the Immigration Bureau at 11.30am. Immigration police chief Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin identified the four suspects as Egbain
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Immigration police on Wednesday searched a Bangkok condominium and rounded up 13 Nigerians for illegal entry into the Kingdom and overstaying their visa, as well as engaging in a romance scam. Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, the acting Immigration Bureau commissioner, led officers who searched six buildings of a condominium complex on
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Two Nigerian men were arrested on Monday for using fake South African passports in attempting to cross the border into Laos from northeast Nong Khai province. Immigration Police said on Tuesday morning that Wayne Junior Shimbambo and Katlego Ofentse Makabane, both 35, had been arrested at 6am the day before while
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The Immigration Bureau (IB) has nabbed two Nigerian nationals and an Indian man in Bangkok for allegedly running romance scams. The IB on Thursday announced that two Nigerians -- Lawrence Osita Nwaenyi, 32, and Peter Stanley Chukwuebuka, 33 -- were arrested at a condominium in Prawet district. Full story: Bangkok Post WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM BANGKOK
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