Picture: Naew Na

 

Thailand's Immigration Bureau chief Lt-Gen Sompong "Big Oud" Chingduang announced the arrest of a middle eastern man who changed his name and passport after being deported and blacklisted for peddling drugs.

 

Mohammed had been arrested in 2018 for selling drugs in the Nana nightlife area of Bangkok.

 

Many people of middle eastern descent live in the area of Soi 3 sometimes referred to as "Little Arabia". 

 

Mohammed showed a Jordanian passport at the time of his arrest and was later deported and blacklisted.

 

However, in 2020 he changed his passport and became an Egyptian national and sneaked back into Thailand. 

 

He still had the name Mohammed but his middle and surname, date and place of birth and his beard and hair color were all altered so he could slip in unnoticed, reported Naew Na.

 

During a crackdown on middle easterners in the Nana area he was found walking the street and behaving suspiciously. He was found to be on overstay on the Egyptian passport. 

 

Naew Na said his arrest in 2018 was because he was in the "Arab Mafia" in the Nana area. He lived there because he hoped to blend in, they said. 

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

He still had the name Mohammed but his middle and surname, date and place of birth and his beard and hair color were all altered so he could slip in unnoticed, reported Naew Na

The passport photo was a give-away.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He was found to be on overstay on the Egyptian passport.

Operating a "pyramid" scheme???????

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

he was found walking the street and behaving suspiciously.

And here the proof that he was offering drugs or something

 

How did they realise he was the person who previously got deported ?

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

How did they realise he was the person who previously got deported ?

Because the man they deported once was named Mohamed too?

1 minute ago, JustAnotherHun said:

Because the man they deported once was named Mohamed too?

That could be the reason if there was only one person in the World who was named Mohamed 

The reason we have to do 90 day reports (tho the bad guys don't do them anyway!) Is because their border interdiction training and technology is fossilized dogpoo. 

 

There's no way this guy should have made it past the guy with medals for nothing, in the booth at port of entry.

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

That could be the reason if there was only one person in the World who was named Mohamed 

so true, but TiT

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

How did they realise he was the person who previously got deported ?

Just go,s to show how pointand useless the biometric scans are when entering.

Surely he was wen entering first time and again when deported.

But not matched entering on his Egypt alias???

Or there is somone at a thai immigration border looking the other way while taking a brown envelope..

 

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

The passport photo was a give-away.

He probably sphinx it was a good likeness...

Another day..... another giant vinyl poster to graphically illustrate the failure of Thai system.

Did he change his fingerprints as well ? Holy cow, it's so easy nowadays to filter, IF they really would want. But they rather prefer to chase foreigners having a birthday party,

9 hours ago, Deli said:

Did he change his fingerprints as well ? Holy cow, it's so easy nowadays to filter, IF they really would want. But they rather prefer to chase foreigners having a birthday party,

Maybe, I am cynical but it seems to me the whole biometrics fiasco was to say to the outside world they were taking measures to combat international crime but in reality they were not.

 

It appears all the fingerprint and face recognition does is link the passport to the biometrics after the first time you enter and then to prove you are the passport holder that entered.

 

It doesn't seem to hold up against changing names and nationalities or countries for those blacklisted, which in some countries it would be difficult to obtain new identity passports especially nationality, but in many Middle Eastern ones not so difficult.

 

Is this what ' Big Joke ' found out and got moved for speaking out about it?

 

 

17 hours ago, Tarteso said:

And here the proof that he was offering drugs or something

 

This was before the Vinyl board. 

14 hours ago, Deli said:

Did he change his fingerprints as well ? Holy cow, it's so easy nowadays to filter, IF they really would want. But they rather prefer to chase foreigners having a birthday party,

Maybe he moved the distance between his eyes.

He probably got a new set of fingers from 7/11

 

16 hours ago, lanng khao said:

He probably sphinx it was a good likeness...

However, his Sphinxter must have tightened up when jammed up by the police....

21 hours ago, webfact said:

During a crackdown on middle easterners in the Nana area he was found walking the street and behaving suspiciously.

Obviously not walking like an Egyptian, what an idiot!

 

 

On 9/21/2021 at 4:54 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:

How did they realise he was the person who previously got deported ?

Charged with overstay and either recognised or came up when fingerprinted.