Susco Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said: Absolutely agree with you. I've never seen one, not one, customer in any of the hi-so designer bag/watch/pen/clothes shops. With the huge rents they pay they must lose a fortune. But they probably have 'influential' owners or 'private' customers who have to hide their 'unusual wealth'. I think you missed the point of Jsixpack's Big Star's post Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatchinExPat Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 1 hour ago, rwill said: No watch stores raided? I think they have already donated their best merchandise to a certain benefactor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 It is a very good bust as laundering is hard to find due to no is stealing . Gold shops must be a favourite as so much gold gets melted down again after repurchase. Phantom customers in tailor shops must be another Someone must have squeeled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKr Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Good ! make the life of those pushers impossible. I am all for it. Whatever the "insiders" on TV say, I say: Well Done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 20 hours ago, snoop1130 said: Three-hundred suspects have so far been arrested while another 100 are being sought. Shop managers arrested or the actual owners who are behind the scenes? Influential people will be protected as usual, 200 billion is a lot of money movement and will have a lot of protection built into the scam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Time to grow Posted June 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2020 This sounds like it has the potential to be a ruse to control the domestic precious metals. Fiat currencies are doomed, quite likely much sooner than most are anticipating. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolgeoff Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 The ones that got arrested will be very worried I imagine.They let the cat out of the bag and now it is over for many.the big bosses will not be happy and many will be walking on egg shells forever.how long was this going on for,and all the people receiving little evenlopes are now over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterphuket Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 5 hours ago, grumpy 4680 said: Money laundering, So thats how its done, Went on Lazarda the other night, but was unable to use Lazarda Wallet, REASON, Thai Government has banned Foreigners (not Thais) saying to prevent money laundering, was only spending 845 baht, I pay Lazada always COD, that's no problem?? Thai logic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, OneeyedJohn said: 70 million is a long way off 200 billion. It's B70,000,000 better than sweet Fanny Adams. Edited June 20, 2020 by Bob A Kneale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 22 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: ...what of the Government Pawn shops, are they not just a cover to launder money, from the government folks that is... Could you explain how that allegation might work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 21 hours ago, pattjock said: From what I have seen before here on Thai visa many of the gold shops are owned by police officers What do you base that assertion on? You're not seriously going on what anonymous Thaivisa posters claim, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, bangkokfrog said: how can we be sure that the 70 million confiscated was all that was found. You're an anonymous poster on an anonymous forum so whether you (as in "we") are sure, or suspicious, is completely irrelevant, no authority is obliged to answer to you (us). Edited June 20, 2020 by Bob A Kneale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 8 hours ago, hansnl said: Most, if not all, of the goldshops are Chinese owned. Most, if not all, of the gold shops are Thai-owned. The owners may have Chinese ancestry but they're Thai. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 8 hours ago, car720 said: It will be interesting to see what happens when everyone must use digital money. None of us will be around to see that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 6 hours ago, JohnnyChristo said: Not to mention great way of taking money over seas. Convert to gold make a <deleted> bracelet and bingo no questions at customs. Why would Customs be interested in cash with the same value as a <deleted> bracelet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 6 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said: Absolutely agree with you. I've never seen one, not one, customer in any of the hi-so designer bag/watch/pen/clothes shops. With the huge rents they pay they must lose a fortune. How many hours every day do you spend staking them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Shammy said: here we are with the Police and security guards running gold shops Jesus... Who said that "police and security guards are running the gold shops"? Edited June 20, 2020 by Bob A Kneale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Time to grow said: This sounds like it has the potential to be a ruse to control the domestic precious metals. Fiat currencies are doomed, quite likely much sooner than most are anticipating. Sure. Of course, it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, Bob A Kneale said: 6 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said: Absolutely agree with you. I've never seen one, not one, customer in any of the hi-so designer bag/watch/pen/clothes shops. With the huge rents they pay they must lose a fortune. How many hours every day do you spend staking them out? You're often trying to pick arguments with me and others, so it's best that I ignore you from here on in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bander Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 22 hours ago, pattjock said: From what I have seen before here on Thai visa many of the gold shops are owned by police officers and the security guards there are off duty police officers. If that is the case they use the crackdown to get rid of the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob A Kneale Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 2 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said: 2 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said: 8 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said: Absolutely agree with you. I've never seen one, not one, customer in any of the hi-so designer bag/watch/pen/clothes shops. With the huge rents they pay they must lose a fortune. How many hours every day do you spend staking them out? You're often trying to pick arguments with me and others, so it's best that I ignore you from here on in. I wasn't picking an argument, I was just asking a question based on your assertion. I thought you may have had some stats in order to reach the conclusion that "all those hiso shops must lose fortunes" just because of the odd occasion that you've never seen customers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpcjsr Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Easy money for the government to steal confiscate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StayinThailand2much Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/19/2020 at 6:15 PM, OneeyedJohn said: 70 million is a long way off 200 billion. True. Seize only half of those Bt200bn, and a good chunk of Covid-19 measures can be paid with it. But I doubt that it will happen. - Wonder how many cops are involved in the drug trade or money-laundering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokfrog Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 11 hours ago, Bob A Kneale said: 22 hours ago, bangkokfrog said: how can we be sure that the 70 million confiscated was all that was found. You're an anonymous poster on an anonymous forum so whether you (as in "we") are sure, or suspicious, is completely irrelevant, no authority is obliged to answer to you (us). Thanks and I take your point Bob. However, most Thai people that I talk to know (or say they know) how things work with the police, and the authorities here don't seem to think they are obliged to answer to anyone... even (or perhaps especially) their own people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tingtong Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 On 6/20/2020 at 8:32 AM, Grumpy one said: The boys do hope to get a tip 10% maybe ???? For sure. But wouldn't that be in effect also laundering money? LoL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flinc2020 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 And this is what happens if you're late sending in your brown envelope....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 6 hours ago, flinc2020 said: And this is what happens if you're late sending in your brown envelope....... Who told you that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewolf99 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Not just gold shops... thousands of crocodile handbags and shoe shops, thousands of spectacle shops selling Gucci & Ray ban sun specs. You never see the locals carrying or wearing any of it....all I ever saw was half a dozen bored employees sitting inside with the Air Con running full blast. These premises are in every town and city throughout the land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time to grow Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 On 6/20/2020 at 5:19 PM, Bob A Kneale said: On 6/20/2020 at 8:49 AM, car720 said: It will be interesting to see what happens when everyone must use digital money. None of us will be around to see that! China has already started trials in select cities and other nations are scrambling to catch up. I would wager a bet that you will be using digital money before the year is up. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlandtday Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 how many bars and gogos are used for laundering? we shall see in the next months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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