They are engaged in an illegal occupation for foreigners with work permits as managers etc. to circumvent very clear laws you mean?
A bit like owning a house in a company name. It's alright until it isn't.
I spent most of my 20s in Thailand.
Wouldn't change a minute of it and never regretted that decision.
In fact, I feel sad for the auld bufties that missed all the fun.
Depends on what kind of crime.
Illicit drug production, distribution, and use is rampant.
Gun and knife crime is pretty common.
Prostitution is everywhere.
Falling cranes and dropped loads are a daily occurrence.
More competence, supervision, and better management of lifting operations is desperately needed.
The fact that they are a drain on resources is neither here nor there.
They were/are not wanted by the majority of the indigenous population and the multicultural experiment has failed because they don't integrate or contribute to society.
Criminals like the one in the OP should be repatriated to their ancestral homelands, just as we would be if caught committing a crime in Thailand.
Doesn't matter where he is born, he is not ethnically British.
A white man that holds a Thai passport is not ethnically Thai. He is a naturalized Thai citizen.