Thailand immigration police aim at foreign criminals including online and telephone

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Clipping the wings of travelling crooks

In person, online, or on the phone, foreign crime is rife

Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The arrest last week of a US national suspected of stealing cash and valuables from a resort marked the start of an ambitious campaign by immigration police to crack down on transnational criminals this year.

Panu: Blitz on transnational gangs

The Immigration Bureau has declared it will weed out as many transnational criminals as it can in 2013 after some of them were found to have used Thailand as a base to commit crimes, bureau chief Panu Kerdlappol said.

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O000o
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Discussion 36 : 14 Jan 2013 at 18.5636
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The question is why those criminals find Thailand, so attractive. As a fried working for UN in Bangkok told me once: Bangkok is not a soft target for any terrorist attack as many people believe, because is the playground of most international mafias, here they are invisible, and they want this to keep on being like this.
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Discussion 35 : 14 Jan 2013 at 18.5035
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So, basically you've identified that there's lots of criminal activity and lumped various nationalities into 10 groups, omitting the largest group of all, local Thai mafia. Oh, and a group for the police themselves, isn't that why all these foreign criminals make a bee-line for Bangkok, law enforcement is so lax.
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Discussion 34 : 14 Jan 2013 at 18.2434
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Wow, with such a list of countries named, one could wonder if there is any room left for Thai criminals. Maybe the labour department could add “criminal activities” on the Thailand restricted business activities.

By the way I am French. Just guilty for criminally expensive restaurants
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Discussion 33 : 14 Jan 2013 at 17.1233
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Don’t forget the 10 the group…Americans…seen holding doors wide open for complete strangers, putting their trash in garbage cans and tipping the help.
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Discussion 32 : 14 Jan 2013 at 15.5532
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Boy Ploydonut, you really "stepped in it " this time. The only foreigners arrested here are the petty, ( small time ),criminals. The big boys are always far away from the action and, if accidentally exposed, have enough money and influential friends to flee unscathed.An audit of bank accounts scources would reveal much more but Thailand doesn't have an anti money laundering
law.Thailand, admit it or not, is a haven for criminal activity, a hideout, and training ground.
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Discussion 31 : 14 Jan 2013 at 15.4631
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I'm all for catching crooks from other countries but when is Thailand going to do something about all the Thai crooks at the beaches. When?? Start with the Jet Ski Scam Artist. All we tourist ever get is talk and no action.
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Discussion 30 : 14 Jan 2013 at 15.1130
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Highlander D13: you were making some sense until you just could not resist the swipe at Taksin and the red shirts.

The higher up you go, the more rampant corruption.

And anybody who believe Thailand was corruption free before the arrival of Taksin is living in lala land.
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Discussion 29 : 14 Jan 2013 at 15.1029
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Foreigners regularly complain that Thai people do not understand sarcasm or irony. The same 144 or so foreigners that clicked dislike on Ploydonut's comment, no doubt.
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Discussion 28 : 14 Jan 2013 at 15.0128
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my visits to the police station was hailed with
"i don't know what your doing here"
from station to station.......foreign criminals.
in the end i moved.(leaving the city with the mess(crooks) behind)
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Discussion 27 : 14 Jan 2013 at 14.0027
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Woops, got it!
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