Man Defrauding Public for Charitable Donations for Over a Year Fined 200 Baht and Released

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – Police have caught and fined a man using a fake ID claiming he is a reporter from Channel 8 and the Chiang Mai Biker Association to solicit donations from people around the Night Bazaar area.

 

According to a police report published on October 11th, a 32-year-old man from Ayutthaya was arrested after it was found that he had been using a fake ID to solicit donations from people in Chiang Mai. He had reportedly walked around the Night Bazaar most evenings with documents asking for donations for various causes as a representative of Channel 8 and the Chiang Mai Bikers Association.

 

He told police he had been doing this since 2016 after coming to Chiang Mai on the free train, earning up to 4,000 baht per day. He confessed to the crime and told police he did the same in Lamphun, Lampang and Lopburi.

 

Full Story: http://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/news/man-defrauding-public-charitable-donations-year-fined-200-baht-released/

 

-- © Copyright Chiang City News 2017-10-11

Sounds about right.  Lucky he didn't drop a cigarette butt on the beach, though...

And smoking on a beach will land you a fine of up to B100,000

1 hour ago, Cuchulainn said:

And smoking on a beach will land you a fine of up to B100,000

Fraud in this country is as common as frogs croaking.

 

Smoking on the beach is limited to the well-to-dos...

Everyone sees the irony of it commit fraud and they levy a 200 baht fine Flick a cigarette but on the beach and get levied a fine of 100,000 baht

 

Did anyone say Farang can afford it .

 

The whole Thai legal system is screwed up

Hmm,...it's good to be a Thai criminal in Thailand..Farangs on the other hand get the full force of the law.

They cant charge him without anyone coming forward saying they are conned by him?

 

But he confessed right?

Doesnt that implicate himself?

4.000 Baht/day ?  Thais are very generous then.

 

200 Baht fine ?  Good to know policemen are not greedy.

I think many posters are under a bit of misapprehension about this smoking thing. Thais and the Chinese hordes will be free to do what they like. Bit like the Bt2000 littering (cig butt) fine in BKK. A Thai can stand next to BIB, flick a butt and nothing.

What a lucky guy a knife attack would have cost him only 400 baht more...

If anyone did ever give to any of those charitable causes, often sought by groups of students or little boxes on counters in various shops, hopefully this may clue them in a bit? And even if the ones asking are legit, like the students, what are the odds that the organization they give the money to is as corrupt as this guy? Pretty good, I'd say.... Since there is virtually no penalty, what's to stop corrupt individuals from going for broke!?

3 hours ago, maximillian said:

4.000 Baht/day ?  Thais are very generous then.

 

200 Baht fine ?  Good to know policemen are not greedy.

Generous Thais? I don't think so... the night bazaar area, where he plied his trade, is packed with, apparently ignorant, tourists.
The policemen aren't greedy? hmmm well, maybe the reason he got arrested in the first place was because he didn't provide little brown envelopes often or thick enough.
Of course, you could be right though, there's always that needle in the haystack just waiting to be found 

200 THB fine, 4,000 THB per day ,who says crime does not pay.

the guy was most likely on the next bus to Chiang Rai to ply

his trade.

regards worgeordie

just what you expect in one of the most racial countries in the world, E Cig and its jail, theft by fraud is 200bt as long as you are a local.

I'm sure the BIB got a nice fat brown envelope as well....  TIT

He is just lucky he wasn't near the beach at that time and smoking.

 

So what does he owe on Back Taxes?

5 hours ago, zyphodb said:

I'm sure the BIB got a nice fat brown envelope as well....  TIT

Besides the 200 Baht fine ?

23 hours ago, realenglish1 said:

Everyone sees the irony of it commit fraud and they levy a 200 baht fine Flick a cigarette but on the beach and get levied a fine of 100,000 baht

 

Did anyone say Farang can afford it .

 

The whole Thai legal system is screwed up

and the only people who cannot seem to see that are the thais

And now he is 

 

On 10/11/2017 at 8:26 PM, maximillian said:

4.000 Baht/day ?  Thais are very generous then.

 

200 Baht fine ?  Good to know policemen are not greedy.

I think based on those statistics even Arthur Daley would have considered it " a nice little earner "

 

 

On 10/11/2017 at 5:33 PM, snoop1130 said:

asking for donations for various causes

nice; 200 is too much; make him smoke on the beach