DSI targets foreigners using nominees to run businesses in Thailand

[webfact]

DSI targets foreigners using nominees to run businesses in Thailand

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A major investigation is underway into a nominee racket. 

 

Four Chinese companies are suspected of setting up around 40 companies running businesses that are reserved for Thais. 

 

They have been aided and abetted my many Thai nationals who acted as nominees, said the Department of Special Investigations yesterday.

 

Assets worth 3.6 billion baht have been seized so far. 

 

The Chinese were trading in rice, doing real estate dealings, running construction companies and accommodation businesses. 

 

The case centers on 255 suspects who assumed Thai nationality in a district of Chiang Rai in Thailand's far north.

 

One is a Chinese national known as A-Pao Sae-sin who forged an application for Thai ID, reported Daily News. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[pixelaoffy]

Well well ! All this love with China and it's tourists was never going to stop at visiting temples markets and bars for a 2 week stay once it wrapped it's arms around them !

[Mr Meeseeks]

Fraud on an industrial scale.

 

Those with nominee companies used to own land and property must be sitting uncomfortably reading this.

[Grumpy John]

Something like this usually geT's reported every couple of years. 

[englishoak]

Surely Chinese would never do that to their close friends... im shocked 

[smedly]

19 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Those with nominee companies used to own land and property must be sitting uncomfortably reading this.

heard it all before 

 

foreign owned homes bars and all manner of businesses are operated like this and have been for years - they don't have the manpower to scratch the surface 

[GalaxyMan]

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

[Thailand Noobie]

35 minutes ago, englishoak said:

Surely Chinese would never do that to their close friends... im shocked 

Must be a mistake 

[englishoak]

3 minutes ago, Thailand Noobie said:

Must be a mistake 

Expect the mistake was not making a big enough donation ....

[Paiman]

To be honest, I am not surprised. 

 

We know which country we are in and money can solve any problem here.

 

 

[ChipButty]

Phuket alone would keep them busy for the next 10 years

[DrTuner]

Accommodation would be the illegal hotel businesses run in the condos. Looks like the proxy tour companies weren't nabbed yet?

[baansgr]

4 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Fraud on an industrial scale.

 

Those with nominee companies used to own land and property must be sitting uncomfortably reading this.

Saber rattling every few years...houses owned through companies no problem. Read stories like this 20 years ago, sorry to pee on your parade.

[Enoon]

4 hours ago, englishoak said:

Surely Chinese would never do that to their close friends... im shocked 

 

It wasn't done to their close friends.

 

it was done with the full cooperataion and approval of their close friends.

 

Their close friends in Thailand who have Thai names, but who have deeper, ancestral, cultural......."allegiances".

 

 

[Colabamumbai]

4 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

With phony Thai  I. D's they don't need it. 

[holy cow cm]

The Chinese seem to dig in everywhere they can put their greedy little paws into. Even in my home city in the USA Bay Area is inundated with them. But then again stupid USA.

[robertson468]

That's why I gave my Thai Wife our little Resort so there would be no problems over legalities - and yes I trust her 100%.  She takes such wonderful care of m!e and our Resort, but she says maybe now is the time to either lease it out (rated as 9.2 on Booking.com and 5* on Trip Advisor) or sell as she would like me to enjoy a little bit of retired life and we can then concentrate on funding Retirement Apartments on 20+ rai she has in Surt Thani, and then off we go again, which means I can retire from being retired!

[KhaoNiaw]

4 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

They're not talking about permanent residency. It's illegally obtaining nationality through corrupt district officials who will create them an ID. It's been going on for years and you hear about arrests every now and then. This sounds like a really big operation though. 

[drbeach]

5 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

Maybe they didn't get it all in the same year.

[drbeach]

13 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

They're not talking about permanent residency. It's illegally obtaining nationality through corrupt district officials who will create them an ID. It's been going on for years and you hear about arrests every now and then. This sounds like a really big operation though. 

WHat? Can I do the same? LOL...not that I'd want to risk getting caught...but just saying. Why is this being allowed. Surely these people are taking an enormous risk, are their citizen details even recorded in a computer?

[RichardColeman]

Sure it will all be solved amicably and $ensibly

[Cake Monster]

I wonder if all these Companies are part of the huge increase in FDI announced earlier this week.

Big loss of Face if they are.

[KhaoNiaw]

14 minutes ago, drbeach said:

WHat? Can I do the same? LOL...not that I'd want to risk getting caught...but just saying. Why is this being allowed. Surely these people are taking an enormous risk, are their citizen details even recorded in a computer?

I remember a case a few years ago where the local officials were using the ID numbers of deceased people. The Chinese guy who'd taken over the identity was pulled up for something minor like a traffic offence, couldn't speak Thai and it all unraveled from there. So they do get some kind of background in the system. Biometric details have caught some others out, so I think it only passes surface scrutiny. Must be big money for it. 

[LukKrueng]

5 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

The answer is in your question: 100 each year...

[Redline]

I think “selectively” targets 

[Pedrogaz]

If they had 'assumed Thai nationality' why did they need any nominees? They could have run their businesses by themselves with their fake ID cards.

[Mr Meeseeks]

3 hours ago, baansgr said:

Saber rattling every few years...houses owned through companies no problem. Read stories like this 20 years ago, sorry to pee on your parade.

Yeh.

 

They said that about illegal workers on construction sites. 

 

They said that about doing visa runs and getting visa stamps without leaving the country. 

 

They said that about being on overstay.

 

No big deal they said, will never be enforced they said. 

 

All now enforced with draconian punishments for those caught. 

 

Chok dee.

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The case centers on 255 suspects who assumed Thai nationality in a district of Chiang Rai in Thailand's far north.

 

Interesting to note CHIANG RAI and I wonder if the "district" and its suspects, situated in Thailand across the Mekong River, has any connections with the huge King Romans Casino complex opposite in the Laos/Chinese Special Economic Zone?? It is the Laos equivalent of Las Vegas. I have stood in Thailand and watched foreign (mainly Chinese and Thai) gamblers crossing on small ferries from parking facilities near The Golden Triangle Resort to the casino complex opposite in Laos:-

 

 

[Guderian]

9 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

I'd like to know how 250 Chinese got Thai permanent residency rights. My understanding is that only 100/nationality can receive it each year.

Probably the same way Egyptian military were able to waltz in and out of the country as they liked. 

[sead]

11 hours ago, smedly said:

heard it all before 

 

foreign owned homes bars and all manner of businesses are operated like this and have been for years - they don't have the manpower to scratch the surface 

Think this is some levels above some bars making 50000bht monthly