Myanmar man arrested with fake work visa stamp trying to re-enter Thailand

[webfact]

Myanmar man arrested with fake work visa stamp trying to re-enter Thailand

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A man from Myanmar admitted paying a Thai in Tak province in Thailand's north west 25,000 baht for a fake work visa stamp in his passport.

 

He was arrested when immigration on the Laos border noticed the stamp ran out after the expiry date of the passport.

 

Sai Thura Kyaw, 37, was trying to cross at Chiang Saen before coming back to Thailand to work.

 

Officials noticed that the expiry date on his work visa was June 27th 2019 which was some five months after his passport was due to expire.

 

Suspicious they contacted the Thai immigration in Tak for their stamp and saw that this one was a fake.

 

The suspect then admitted paying a Thai person 25,000 baht for the bogus stamp.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-08-02

[George Bowman]

19 minutes ago, webfact said:

The suspect then admitted paying a Thai person 25,000 baht for the bogus stamp.

And guess which person goes to jail?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Gotta hand it to those sharp eggs at Immigration.

 

Had not the idiot Thai forgery stamper put the visa expiry date 5 months after the expiry of the guy's passport, you'd have to wonder from the description in the article whether Immigration would have flagged this guy at all.

 

No mention about them spotting what looked to be a fake/forged visa stamp. Rather, that the stamp had an expiry date well after the expiration of the guy's passport, which ANY Immigration staff would know they simply don't do.

 

[Gecko123]

The forger should have consulted with @ubonjoe beforehand.

Edited August 2, 2018 by Gecko123

[DM07]

Thank God, they eliminated this threat to the nation!

Six smiling idiot paperpushers and one guy, who wanted to work!

[BobbyL]

Look at the state of that photo ?

 

Thank God they have got that Burmese man off the streets. 

[BobBKK]

Say it ain't true!  in another city a lady was caught jaywalking and I heard someone was rude to someone in pattaya!

[bluesofa]

2 hours ago, missoura said:

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The suspect then admitted paying a Thai person 25,000 baht for the bogus stamp.

And guess which person goes to jail?

Be fair, they've narrowed it down to six million: He was described as a Thai man called Nok.

 

[jimster]

Chiang Saen immigration. That's the one for the casino on the Lao bank. Have got to wonder what a Burmese man who entered the country through Tak province, meaning Mae Sot was doing all the way in another part of the country? Gambling perhaps? There are casinos in Myanmar too, including 6 or 7 in Myawaddy, opposite Mae Sot. No need to go that far.

[tifino]

If one is interested to see what it's like for when one sneaks over the border! 

 

there's currently a great doco series begun (on SBS Aust website) 

 

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1274838595955

EP2 has this documentary actually jumping the fence!

[attrayant]

I have always wondered how they know if a stamp is fake. What if he had gotten the stamp at a real immigration office where they made the same clerical error with the expiration date. Would that make the stamp fake?