Koh Samui: 54 Chinese nationals arrested working in a call center at a hotel

[webfact]

Koh Samui: 54 Chinese nationals arrested working in a call center at a hotel

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Tourist and local police raided a hotel in Moo1 Bo Phut on Koh Samui yesterday following a complaint from a Chinese person. 

 

The Chinese complainant said they had been tricked into coming to the island and given work in a call center that made them feel uncomfortable. 

 

Police bided their time then raided yesterday rounding up 54 young Chinese people. 

 

None had passports - they all said they had come in on tourist visas and given their passports to the boss who didn't stay at the hotel. 

 

Several rooms were kitted out as offices with 100 desktop and laptops and internet connections. Some 70 phones were also taken into evidence. 

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

The operatives were tricking Chinese people in their homeland into buying shares on the stock market. Investors were under the impression they were dealing with experts in the field. 

 

The employees were paid 50,000 baht a month if they generated 5 million in business. 

 

They were all booked with illegal entry and working without permits. 

 

The inquiry is now being expanded to find out who is behind the operation and the Thais are working with the Chinese police on this endeavor. 

 

Source: Naew Na

 

 

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[ezzra]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

They were all booked with illegal entry and working without permits. 

Given the China-Thailand father-son relationship, nothing will come out of it they will all be sent back to China for the chinese to deal with them...

[No1]

Before the typical Chinese bashing starts, please be aware that many of those workers were tricked into the situation and are victims themselves.

[sammieuk1]

That indoor pool looks a tad pea soup are there no toilets at this hotel????

[Beggar]

13 minutes ago, No1 said:

Before the typical Chinese bashing starts, please be aware that many of those workers were tricked into the situation and are victims themselves.

How could they have been tricked? They came on a tourist visa and traveled to Koh Samui and met their employer and gave him the passport and worked for him. They did not go to the police and complained. 

[tobikoproject]

Rediculous.. Chinese are known to keep the truth hidden. I should know because I have witnessed and have been.lied to by people I trusted from China who ended me knocking on.the door of the Embassy for a.flight.home.after not being paid and left on the street. They were not screwed because.. every tour group from.China has one person holding their passports for them all the time.

[zhounan]

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Before the typical Chinese bashing starts, please be aware that many of those workers were tricked into the situation and are victims themselves.

 

Chinese workers, ALL, know exactly what they're going to do, they're attracted by the 50.000baht/month. 

I know this for personal experience, because I worked for a chinee company in my homeland.

[Tropicalevo]

According to Samui Times another 54 were arrested in Bangkok yesterday???

Same MO

[orchis]

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

According to Samui Times another 54 were arrested in Bangkok yesterday???

Same MO

24 in bkk according to samui times

[AlexRich]

Tea money failure?

[Sticky Wicket]

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

That indoor pool looks a tad pea soup are there no toilets at this hotel????

I'm surprised somebody didn't push that copper in!

[Thailand]

And the hundreds of Chinese on tourist and education visas renting property and then running AirBNB style operations continue to grow and nothing is done about it by either the police or immigration. 

[Deli]

The real Chinese quality tourist the TAT always lures in the country. Too late to stop the takeover.

[edwinchester]

One wonders why the hotel management didn't have any suspicions as to why all their foreign guests converted the rooms into offices when they arrived.

[30la]

No one in the hotel noticed it? It smells a bit like a well prepared thing and the hotel has also had its part!

[RJRS1301]

No vinyl banners, not photo op for many officers, no finger pointing, did not happen

[Isaan sailor]

The Cha-Cha Regime loves ChiComs.  They’ll get off the hook...

[Isaanbiker]

How many of them are still doing it?

 

   Better get married and do it legal. Niehau! 

[Xaos]

Boiling room

[RichardColeman]

Long hours on computer  ? Just look for the Red bull spikes at 7/11's

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, No1 said:

Before the typical Chinese bashing starts, please be aware that many of those workers were tricked into the situation and are victims themselves.

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

None had passports - they all said they had come in on tourist visas and given their passports to the boss who didn't stay at the hotel. 

 

Several rooms were kitted out as offices with 100 desktop and laptops and internet connections. Some 70 phones were also taken into evidence.

Must have been a working holiday?

[GoodieAfterDark]

11 hours ago, edwinchester said:

One wonders why the hotel management didn't have any suspicions as to why all their foreign guests converted the rooms into offices when they arrived.

Maybe the hotel owner is Chinese.

[Redline]

17 hours ago, No1 said:

Before the typical Chinese bashing starts, please be aware that many of those workers were tricked into the situation and are victims themselves.

I guess we won’t know, but maybe you were involved?

[ChipButty]

The hotel had to be in on this the internet getting hammered electric bills sky high and what about the cleaners? That swimming pool a lovely shade of green 

[tifino]

Hotel CaLLiFoneya 

[baansgr]

This puts to shame the IRA run boiler rooms in a town house with three or four guys. 

[a977]

Oh no not more Quality Chinese caught up in a scam and persecuted by the BIB (who did not receive said brown envelope) Oh well back to the drawing board for Pinocchio and Ol Fatty, you just going to have to find someone else to help pull you out of the S##

[webledink33]

Free visas upon entry are bringing in working slaves .....like cattle to a watering pond!   

 

[metisdead]

A derogatory troll post has been removed. 

[animatic]

It is noticeable that the name of the resort is never mentioned.