Big Joke: More fake visa agents arrested in Bangkok

 

Image: INN

 

Immigration chief Lt-Gen Surachat "Big Joke" Hakparn has announced the arrest of yet more agents offering migrants fake visas with copied stamps. 

 

Arrested in the latest bust were Naen Anna, a Myanmar national and Thanakrit Thaugsuban.

 

Taken into evidence were Myanmar passports, TM 6 cards, air tickets and information about crossings made at Tak province.

 

Lt-Gen Surachate said the couple had opened a company named T.A.N. 999 Innovation operating out of a room in the Samwa area of Bangkok. 

 

They were offering long term visas with no necessity to leave or re-enter the kingdom. 

 

Also arrested was a go-between from Myanmar by the name of Chai Paeng.

 

He has given evidence that customers paid 18,000 baht for the visa in two installments.

 

The case is at least the third fake visa agent bust reported by Thaivisa in the last couple of weeks. 

 

Source: INN

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2019-02-23

The level of dishonesty and corruption in Thai society must be beyond belief , however it is normal and must prevale.

Why sell fake visas ? There seems to be bigger money to make in printing all those giant posters with Mr Big Joke's photo !! ????

2 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Why sell fake visas ? There seems to be bigger money to make in printing all those giant posters with Mr Big Joke's photo !! ????

The posters are probably fake as well!

PS;  I wonder if the stories as fake too.

4 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Why sell fake visas ? There seems to be bigger money to make in printing all those giant posters with Mr Big Joke's photo !! ????

I already wondered how many devoted cops are working in day and night shift for the BJ propaganda department.

What is really needed is a national  Immigration database with an app accessible to authorized offices/officers. This could be used to check any passport/visa and would make stamps redundant. A smaller version of what is used in the EU and UK. Many nations issue electronic visas now. Details recorded at point of entry, overseas embassies and immigration offices instead of all those useless photocopies and landing cards. May change income generation for some officers though.

I'd like to see BJ given a proper job like reducing road deaths or catching violent criminals instead of going after soft targets all the time. Of course the photo ops would be less frequent and he could get his uniform creased.

I wonder why it always looks like half the informations are withheld in these articles.

So somebody buys a visa / extension of stay from these guys, believes it's legit (or else he wouldn't buy it). So after 90 days he goes to make his 90 day report, the IO sees that the visa is fake, arrests the foreigner and sends him to IDC. The foreigner writes about his experience with this company on Facebook or similar. How do these companies have customers?

What I do not understand is that no people are arrested while doing 90 day reports or while departing the country. If it (extension or visa is fake) the IO will see that they is no record in system......

1 hour ago, visarunner said:

What I do not understand is that no people are arrested while doing 90 day reports or while departing the country. If it (extension or visa is fake) the IO will see that they is no record in system......

Because people just won’t do 90 day reports, that’s why.

I assume the additional restriction imposed on retirement visas was a major factor in finding these fake visa agents

Must of not paid the right Somchai.....

There's corruption here........ ! 

2 hours ago, visarunner said:

What I do not understand is that no people are arrested while doing 90 day reports or while departing the country. If it (extension or visa is fake) the IO will see that they is no record in system......

The people using such fake stamps are (seems to be?) mainly from nearby countries. They never put a foot in an Immigration Office; they never make a 90-Days reports; they can stay here years using such fake stamps. Problems mainly occur when they want return in their country... as the stamps don't match the Thai database.

Still there is a lot of advertising like "no deposit on bank needed" and stuff like that. Get extension in three days... These companies must be well connected.

Where, what, Thailand 4.0? How long were these peeps in business 20 years ????

7 hours ago, jesimps said:

I'd like to see BJ given a proper job like reducing road deaths or catching violent criminals instead of going after soft targets all the time. Of course the photo ops would be less frequent and he could get his uniform creased.

If he was working to reduce road deaths someone would complain that he should be given a proper job catching illegal immigrants and overstayers.

 

When you see what slime and corruption is brought to daylight by Surachet it makes you wonder, who much more serious the problem must be, when the issue is "off the Farang radar". 

This country is doomed; hardly anything is done anymore without the little (or bigger) envelopes. Corruption is not the problem of the system but meanwhile became the system - good luck in cleaning up that mess !