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Not only is it cold, but also very windy. The ferry service between the islands of Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao and the mainland has been suspended for 2 days (18+19 December). I'm surprised it's not headlined in the Thai news. People who want to travel to the islands and people who want to leave the islands can't at the moment.

He said the investigation has progressed but they were still looking into the transfer of money.

However, he will have a lot of work there if he extrapolates the official income of civil servants with the years of service and then compares that with the actual assets, such as luxury mansions, luxury watches, luxury sports cars, property holdings, overseas accounts, gold holdings, stock holdings, cash, etc. There will be sure officials where such a comparison would attest inexplicably high fortunes.

What a sad worldview. What does the state care about the sex life of its residents. To criminalize adult people having consensual sex. These radical religious fanatics are really sick in the head.

Thailand needs fresh blood in politics and not the ancient dinosaurs without any future visions for their country and their people. Like the current power clique, Taksin belongs to this generation of dinosaurs whose only concern is to fill the overseas accounts personally, 

of their familys and close friends with taxpayers money.

The current systems are designed only to maintain power for a small privileged clique. Corruption, nepotism, monopolys, new constitutions, poor education, low wages, lack of transparency, rights to have a say, dismantling democracy, dual jurisdiction, limited freedom rights, media synchronization, stupid laws, dictated agricultural prices, etc. are the instruments used to keep the people stupid and down.

4 hours ago, 2009 said:

I dunno, but you see this kind of thing every day on the roads here.

 

There's a lack of genuine empathy here in general.

 

I think because the local culture doesn't really permit then to express their feelings and emotions at all, they end up just taking it out on others by being as difficult as possible on the roads and elsewhere in general.

Another reason to explain the brainless behavior in this situation would be the hierarchical society of Thailand, where the superior is always right and must never be criticized. And there are as many different levels of hierarchy in Thailand as there are Thais. Every Thai finds out in a flash whether his counterpart is higher or lower. And there comes a low-ranking ambulance driver with flashing lights and sirens, and wants to force the higher-ranking police officer to go out of his way.

That's not even possible.

Don't you know who i am?

And then the whole pathetic of the hurt little cock ego comes to light, without recognizing the situation (here an emergency) as a whole logically. Sad.

Just now, MJCM said:

I think you ..... missed the at the end I guess (Never heard of sarcasm? )  ????

I no missed it. But somehow a stupid excuse will occur from him.

6 minutes ago, MJCM said:

Maybe he just wanted to prevent the Ambulance getting a ticket for passing through a red light, and he thought he did a good deed 

He thought?

As the case is described in the OP, he seems to lack precisely this ability - to think.

He's definitely not the brightest candle on the cake.

It's annoying, this constant back and forth, non-stop ambiguity and legal instability. The general approach to decriminalizing hemp makes sense. Ultimately, the user only harms himself, just like with the legal consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, junk food or sugary drinks. The only thing missing here is a clear legal basis that forms a framework for the freedom to consume hemp. It's a pity that some politicians and interest groups want to create a medieval situation again, which ultimately wants to patronize and enslave society.

Thirty cars - ten of them luxury vehicles - were seized as well as "big bikes", amulets and Bear Brick dolls.

Bear Brick dolls ???

They are usefull for money laundering?

I do not understand it.

Back and forth, forth and back and forth, flip flop, U-turn 1,2,3

How often rules and laws are enacted, changed and withdrawn again and that in a very short time is amazing. The rug is being pulled out from under the feet of many small entrepreneurs again.

This lack of planning ultimately leads to chaos. Law creating amateurs.

1 hour ago, Dogmatix said:

Can you cite examples where Thai courts have rejected the land ownership by a foreigner and what the court ordered to be done to rectify the situation? I am unaware of any cases like this and can't think who would  sue in the court. The Land Department has power to force the company to sell the land or it can seize the land and have the Legal Execution Dept sell it by public auction without going to court. But I have never heard of cases where this happened either.  There have just been threatening noises made from time to time but, so far, never any action. 

 

What has become more difficult, since a letter sent to land offices by the Interior Ministry in the last days of the Thaksin government before the 2006 coup, ordering them to check, is registering land in the name of any company that has any foreigners associated with it at all, whether as shareholders, directors or just people hanging around in the Land Office, Before 2006 the instruction to land offices was just to refer to the director general any transaction where foreigners owned over 40% of the shares but it was easy to get around this by reducing the foreign shareholding to 40% in the Land Office before going up to the counter and increasing it back up to 49% before leaving the office.

I have a Thai lawyer in my family and he sometimes has such company troubles on his desk. One case, for example, was where a Thai shareholder who actually only acted as a straw man died. His Thai heirs knew that the deceased owned shares in several companies. The heirs wanted money for the shares. The case then went through extortion, reporting to the land registry, reporting to the MOC and ended with the annulment of the company share transfer papers in court. Logically, the foreigner could not prove a money transfer for the transferred Thai shares and the holding of more than 49% of the shares ultimately led to the company's dissolution.

The company solution only gives 49% security for the foreigner, although he pays 100%. The remaining 51% thai mandatory shares are "secured" via contract constructions with blank share purchase contracts and voting right transfers.

Ergo: The company solution to buy land as a foreigner is not that "simple" and not 100% secure.

8 hours ago, redwhiteandblue said:

This whole 'foreigner land-buy scam' is 100% aimed at the Chinese anyway.

 

No-one (no normal people anyway) in their right mind would "invest" 40 million baht to buy 1 rai of land.

 

Come on guys let's get real.

There have been several large waves of Chinese immigration in the past. Meanwhile, many of these 2nd and 3rd generation Chinese are Thai citizens with all rights and are very successful economically. Historically, you can see that: The gold trade is firmly in Chinese hands, Chinatown in Bangkok, Chinese temples, Chinese cemeteries, etc.

Many of these Thai-Chinese are high officials and judges today. In the countryside, these Thai-Chinese own a lot of agricultural land, mills and factories.

Historically, the Chinese have always found ways to invest in land through their Thai-China family ties. Chinese don't need to invest 40 million baht to buy 1 rai of land. They have other ways.

Srisuwan Janya is a populist self-promoter. Almost all parties use the nationalist trumpet to get votes. The evil foreigner as an enemy. A popular political plot to distract from the real enemies in their own country, aka corruption, nepotism, unequal distribution of income, dismantling of democracy, clique economy, monopolies, incompetence, unequal education and health care, intransparency in the use of taxpayers' money, etc.

18 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

Easier to set up a company build a couple of houses live in one and rent the other out making sure you keep your company accounts up to date and pay your taxes then when you want to move on in life sell the company as a going concern that’s what I did 

Normally, in a Thai company, 51% must remain in Thai hands. Of course, the Thai 51% give up their voting rights on a separate sheet of paper. The whole thing is on shaky ground. In the past, Thai courts have rejected this model as it results in "quasi" land ownership by the foreigner. From my point of view, the company model is only suitable if you have a Thai partner who you can trust 100%. However, many practice this model with unknown shareholders/straw men supplied by shady lawyers.

Instead of donating cash, the donor should have donated a 3 million luxury watch without a receipt. It is known that this works much better.

It won't work like it always does.

If a police unit from another district raids a place and are operating in a different area, they never know which big shot they are stepping on their toes and spitting into there rice bowls. This can lead to too many problems, then they better leave it as it is.

38 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

You obviously don't understand.

 

Immigration are a branch of the royal Thai police. 

 

A regular 'cop' cannot deport or blacklist you. The immigration department, which is a department of the RTP, can.

 

 

I know the structures of the police apparatus. I doubt that even the immigration police have the right to expel someone and blacklist them for life without a court order if it's not a visa violation at the border.

What bothers me is that the chief of police is trumpeting his apparent power here, although it contradicts the usual legal procedure for drug offenses by foreigners. My wife's cosin is a well-known criminal attorney and has handled dozens of such drug cases.

That's why I'm surprised that, according to the police chief, now punishments without a court hearing for drug offenses should only be determined by the police. And that is wrong and dangerous  from my point of view.