‘Big Joke’ Vows To Catch All Chinese Grey Capitalists

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Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn. Photo: Thai Rath

 

by TNR Staff 

 

DEPUTY National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, whose nickname is Big Joke, this afternoon (Nov. 13) said all Chinese grey capitalists who run shady nominee businesses and hold dual nationalities will be rounded up within the next two to three weeks, Matichon newspaper said.

 

Speaking prior to a meeting of a working group at the Police Club, Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate said attending the talks are Pol. Maj. Gen. Pananchai Cheunchaitham, deputy chief of Region 1 Provincial Police, police investigators and officers from the Metropolitan Police Bureau.

 

He explained that not all Chinese people are criminals but mostly the grey capitalist groups, who hold dual nationalities as opposed to a single one because they do not intend to return to their homeland, have been carrying out criminal activities.

 

He has also consulted the Chinese ambassador about this crackdown.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/11/13/big-joke-vows-to-catch-all-chinese-grey-capitalists/

 

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[Celsius]

Replace Chinese with American or a country of your choice, most would scream racism and discrimination.

 

 

 

I really do love Thailand. They are fair.

[ezzra]

This is a tall order in a country that is overrun with criminal gangs many under the protection and patronage of some government, army and police big wigs, and just because someone is a Lt. Gen means nothing, so dear Lt. Gen, Joke, don't count your chickens yet...

[RandiRona]

Well... if History and tradition is any indication.....

[klauskunkel]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

all Chinese grey capitalists who run shady nominee businesses and hold dual nationalities will be rounded up within the next two to three weeks

Phew, I'm safe for now...

[CANSIAM]

Better put a few of the hundreds of thousands of Russians on your radar as well in 45-60 days time.......

[RichardColeman]

Amazing how many communists are capitalists when they attain money and wealth 

[jacko45k]

Go get 'em Tiger!

[Orinoco]

Sounds like jealousy.  

[Dogmatix]

Great to know that all these dual national Chinese gangsters will be cleaned up by big joke in 3 weeks. But that will still leave the vast majority of Chinese gangsters that hold only one nationality - Thai.

Edited November 14, 2022 by Dogmatix

[Dogmatix]

Still a little unclear what joke meant. Is it OK for Chinese gangsters to operate in the Kingdom, if they have naturalized as Thais and renounced Chinese nationality. Is it only dual nationals he sees as a problem?
 

I wonder how many dual national Chinese gangsters there are. Chinese, which includes Taiwanese, Hong Kongers and Macanese in Thai govt classification, are indeed the largest nationality applying for Thai nationality each year. However Chinese law strictly prohibits dual nationality. The Thai Ministry of Interior writes to the embassies of all newly naturalised Thais to inform them in the hope that country will do their dirty work for them and revoke their original  nationality because the Thai law doesn’t have its own provisions to do this. Does Joke have information that all the Chinese gangsters are able to bribe the Chinese embassy to intercept the letters from the MOI and throw them away in order to retain Chinese nationality?

 

Another issue is that Special Branch and the National Intelligence Agency thoroughly vet all applicants for Thai nationality and check them for home country, Thai and Interpol criminal records. The NIA is also supposed to check their home and business circumstances with unannounced visits, if appropriate. Is Joke saying that all this vetting is ineffective because they can easily bribe their way to Thai nationality?

 

Another possibly is that these Chinese gangsters don’t have dual nationality at all but have fake Thai ID cards provided by corrupt district office officials which has been reported in the past. That would also avoid the need to bribe the Chinese govt not to revoke their Chinese nationality. If this is the case, I hope Joke will also have these criminal district officers rounded up in the same time frame.

 

Finally, I wonder what will happen to Joke, if his master, Prawit, loses power at the next election or simply falls off the hook. There must be a lot of other cops who didn’t appreciate his rapid promotions or his reinstatement to the force after his mysterious fall from grace for reasons that cannot be discussed here..

Edited November 14, 2022 by Dogmatix

[ChrisY1]

He needs to be careful....he'll be sent to the Thai gulag if he starts stepping on too many toes!

[AhFarangJa]

I remember he once said that about overstayers too, even announcing there were non left.

On another note, I am still bewildered as to how someone can be removed from a high post in immigration only to re-emerge in an even higher post as second in charge of the police force.................little packages wrapped in string maybe..............

[Smokey and the Bandit]

6 hours ago, Celsius said:

Replace Chinese with American or a country of your choice, most would scream racism and discrimination.

 

 

 

I really do love Thailand. They are fair.

Hilarious!????????????

[mjakob007]

punishing them for not sending them in droves of millions a month to suvarnabum?

[mikeymike100]

2 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

He needs to be careful....he'll be sent to the Thai gulag if he starts stepping on too many toes!

I sense some sarcasm, but you never know in Thailand?????

[mikeymike100]

"‘Big Joke’ Vows To Catch All Chinese Grey Capitalists"

 

Well he sure has a big job on his hands?

I have a feeling he is being over confident?????

[Dogmatix]

2 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

I remember he once said that about overstayers too, even announcing there were non left.

On another note, I am still bewildered as to how someone can be removed from a high post in immigration only to re-emerge in an even higher post as second in charge of the police force.................little packages wrapped in string maybe..............

You have to understand he was allegedly handpicked by Gen Watchman as his bagman which is supposedly why he was flying all over the country dealing with high profile money spinning businesses like casinos when he was nominally only head of Immigration. After his fall from grace which cannot be discussed frankly here, Watchman was said to have intervened and saved Joke from prison or worse. He is assumed to have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to secure Joke’s rehabilitation and reinstatement into the police. Whether true or not it is obvious that he had some very powerful to avoid prison and come back to suc a powerful job. But with near total lack of accountability in Thai society it is neigh impossible for the Thai people to learn the facts behind this highly suspicious looking career.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

DEPUTY National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, whose nickname is Big Joke, this afternoon (Nov. 13) said all Chinese grey capitalists who run shady nominee businesses and hold dual nationalities will be rounded up within the next two to three weeks, Matichon newspaper said.

Does Chuwit have a B-list to give him?

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