Immigration police arrest foreigners for a variety of crimes

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Immigration police arrest foreigners for a variety of crimes

By Kornkamon Aksorndech 
The Nation

 

 

A Chinese man who was wanted in his home country for illegally operating an online gambling den with a sum worth 400 million yuan (or Bt2 billion) has been arrested, Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang said on Friday.

The arrest was one of several recent cases involving foreigners, Sompong said. 

 

In the first case, Chinese man Yunyong He had re-entered Thailand on April 27 under a new name of An He. As he tried to renew his visa, which expired on June 25, officials found that An He was the same man as the previously deported Yunyong He.

 

 

Yunyong had been prosecuted and jailed for 11 months for filing false information to officials and forging and using the forged documents to apply for a Thai national ID card before he was deported in 2016 and blacklisted from re-entering Thailand.

 

He re-entered Thailand on April 27 under a new name of An He. 

 

In the second case, 32-year-old Chinese man Zhang Yifei was arrested in Phuket's Muang district on June 11.

 

Zhang was wanted in his home country for illegally operating a Bt2 billion online gambling den along with 17 previously-arrested compatriots but he managed to flee to Thailand.

 

In the third case, following a tip-off that foreign migrants had been working as masseurs at a spa for men in Soi Suan Plu 6 in Bangkok's Sathorn district, police rounded up 15 male workers. One was from Myanmar, two from Cambodian, eight from Vietnam, three from Laos and one stateless man. They now face charges of working without permission.

 

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

In a fifth case, 39-year-old Aki Petri Johannes Vartianen, from Finland, was arrested on June 26, as per a request from the Finnish Police. He was sentenced to two-years and 12 days in prison for possessing and selling illicit drugs to customers while he was working as a body-building trainer there.

 

Sompong also said at the press conference that the biometric technology at international airports was not yet fully linked and immigration police still had to use other detection methods. 

 

He expected the biometric system and all related records should be effectively applied at checkpoints by August.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30371928

 

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[Isaanbiker]

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

  Incredible. You can hardly talk about a criminal here. How and from where did they get this information?

 

   Interpol won't issue a red note for him, nor would the cops know where he went to, innit? 

Edited June 28, 2019 by Isaanbiker
Cold beer was empty

[djayz]

I wonder if those Chinese gambling den owners are the ones who also operate these highly illegal and addictive cuddly toy machines?

[legend49]

15 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

  Incredible. You can hardly talk about a criminal here. How and from where did they get this information?

 

   Interpol won't issue a red note for him, nor would the cops know where he went to, innit? 

Fake news; Thainess!

[Oziex1]

Looks like the tide of foreign criminals came flooding back after Big Joke arrested them all before his downfall. 

[sammieuk1]

Looking like the boom time returns for poster printers again???? 

[Bluespunk]

15 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

 

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

Wow, 5,200 baht.

 

Big time criminal, wonder how much the plastic poster celebrating this godfather of crimes’ capture cost...

Edited June 29, 2019 by Bluespunk

[Yinn]

33 minutes ago, legend49 said:

Fake news; Thainess!

Can you explain it why this is “thainess”?

[essox essox]

3 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Can you explain it why this is “thainess”?

anything to do with THAILAND ....I think......

[Yinn]

15 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

2 minutes ago, essox essox said:

anything to do with THAILAND ....I think......

 

Ok.

[jacknorman]

15 minutes ago, Yinn said:

Can you explain it why this is “thainess”?

https://www.parliament.go.th/News_Hot/news/news_detail.php?prid=616473

[stanleycoin]

15 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Wow, 5,200 baht.

 

Big time criminal, wonder how much the plastic poster celebrating this godfather of crimes’ capture cost...

All part of the new  Get them evil foreigners campaign

raging in Thailand at present.

Locals just carry on with there crime,  no problem, its very small. 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2019 by stanleycoin

[zydeco]

15 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

  Incredible. You can hardly talk about a criminal here. How and from where did they get this information?

 

   Interpol won't issue a red note for him, nor would the cops know where he went to, innit? 

$175??? I don't think the police in San Francisco will even bother showing up to file a report on that amount.

[petermik]

Without these pesky fallang Thailand would be crime free........

[JASON THAI]

A man from the UK was arrested when trying to leave Thailand, for not paying 5 Baht to use a toilet in a Pattaya beer bar. fingerprints from his beer glass was given to the police who informed immigration & he was caught out when trying to go home at the airport from there new scanning machines 555

[zydeco]

2 minutes ago, JASON THAI said:

A man from the UK was arrested when trying to leave Thailand, for not paying 5 Baht to use a toilet in a Pattaya beer bar. fingerprints from his beer glass was given to the police who informed immigration & he was caught out when trying to go home at the airport from there new scanning machines 555

Might tack on a few charges for overstaying the time limit at the Oishi sushi buffet, too.

[TDCNINJA]

"In the third case, following a tip-off that foreign migrants had been working as masseurs at a spa for men in Soi Suan Plu 6 in Bangkok's Sathorn district, police rounded up 15 male workers. One was from Myanmar, two from Cambodian, eight from Vietnam, three from Laos and one stateless man. They now face charges of working without permission."

 

What the hell is a 'stateless man.'

[soalbundy]

Just now, TDCNINJA said:

"In the third case, following a tip-off that foreign migrants had been working as masseurs at a spa for men in Soi Suan Plu 6 in Bangkok's Sathorn district, police rounded up 15 male workers. One was from Myanmar, two from Cambodian, eight from Vietnam, three from Laos and one stateless man. They now face charges of working without permission."

 

What the hell is a 'stateless man.'

someone who isn't recognised by any country as being their citizen

[The Deerhunter]

16 hours ago, djayz said:

I wonder if those Chinese gambling den owners are the ones who also operate these highly illegal and addictive cuddly toy machines?

Shock horror.  Do they mean to tell us there is no manual skill involved and the toy machines are a matter of chance.  If s they should be charged with false pretences.

 

One Check One Fin and a the rest Chinese (Thailand's Most Favoured Nation) or other SE Asians.

[rodknock]

they can arrest all these people with notices from other country's.

why is it they have not arrested the red bull kid!!!!! i guess they are hoping it just goes away, the power of money!!!!

[wombat]

16 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

hardly seems worth the effort ?

[wombat]

14 minutes ago, rodknock said:

they are hoping it just goes away,

i had forgotten about him.

[Redline]

One department forced to do their job, so they have to promote the fact they are working ????

[Percy P]

17 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

In the fourth case, 38-year-old David Sykora, from the Czech Republic, was arrested on June 24. He is a convicted thief who is wanted in his home country for a theft of goods worth 3,790 Czech koruna (Bt5,200).

 

  Incredible. You can hardly talk about a criminal here. How and from where did they get this information?

 

   Interpol won't issue a red note for him, nor would the cops know where he went to, innit? 

Never mind you can't hide. when the finger printing is working satisfactory there will be many more I'm sure.

[Khun Paul]

Amazing they promoted Thailand for the Chinese yet it seems it is the Chinese that commit crimes, all the majority of Farang  ( westerners ) do is to commit Visas offences. Now WHO are the real Criminals eh ?????????????

[ChipButty]

Chinese have taken over from the Russians who next?

[ThomasThBKK]

1 hour ago, TDCNINJA said:

"In the third case, following a tip-off that foreign migrants had been working as masseurs at a spa for men in Soi Suan Plu 6 in Bangkok's Sathorn district, police rounded up 15 male workers. One was from Myanmar, two from Cambodian, eight from Vietnam, three from Laos and one stateless man. They now face charges of working without permission."

 

What the hell is a 'stateless man.'

Like the hilltribes here, thai government refuses to issue them passports. Most prominent case is prolly the cave rescue last year, most of the boys and trainer were stateless too... 

 

So they arrest non pure enough thais now it seems, the purge is in full swing. 

[helloagain]

Can we have a thread thai police arrest thais for a varity of crimes 

[BobBKK]

Stunning stuff, meanwhile a bank robber was caught and claimed he was 'borrowing' the money citing K.Prawit. The Police, perplexed and not willing to contradict said K.Prawit, let him go as 'borrowing' has been established in Thai Law as 'ok'. 

 

Edited June 29, 2019 by BobBKK

[Surasak]

1 hour ago, petermik said:

Without these pesky fallang Thailand would be crime free........

In your dreams, or is that nightmares?