Foreigners Banned from Thailand for Life after Attacking Phuket Immigration Officers

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Phuket – Multiple foreigners have been given a lifetime ban after an incident that saw several Immigration officers injured when the foreigners attempted to stop Immigration officers from serving a search warrant on a property to look for and arrest a wanted Indian national.

The Phuket Immigration Chief Colonel Tanet Sukchai told the Phuket Express that after the incident at the villa, they have taken legal action against multiple foreigners and withdrawn their permission to stay in Thailand as well as blacklisted them (Lifetime ban from entering the country).

 

Officers have arrested Mr. NIKHIL ARORA, Indian/Vanuatu national. He had a Thailand Privilege Visa, previously Thailand Elite. He had an arrest warrant from the Phuket Kwaeng Court for allegedly threatening another Indian man. He was the main target of the Immigration operation.

 

By Goongnang Suksawat

 

Full story: THE PHUKET EXPRESS 2023-10-30

 

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[richard_smith237]

Not good optics for Thai Elite….  
Indian - Vanuatu nationality, what are the odds of this guy having any Melanesian heritage??

Aren't there Thai Elite police checks ?

 

Paid guards fighting immigration ??? A ban means nothing…, 

Edited October 29, 2023 by richard_smith237

[harleyclarkey]

Dem Injins are getting feisty. Is this the same lot who had a go the other day-or another bunch? 

What a lot of plonkers-mollusc brains.

 

Attacking any Thai official especially a foreigner is not what any sane person would contemplate. 

[Hakuna Matata]

Is it easy to buy Vanuatu passport?

[madmitch]

4 minutes ago, Hakuna Matata said:

Is it easy to buy Vanuatu passport?

Expensive but easy. One of those countries that gives a passport for a wad of cash. 

[ChipButty]

Not much of a story, 

[sumongkhwai]

Destroy his Indian passport and send him back to Vanuatu, I'm sure he be welcomed with open arms and spears.

[NONG CHOK]

I would have loved to have seen his updated mugshot the morning after he was incarcerated. He not have would been in very good shape.

Edited October 29, 2023 by NONG CHOK

[spidermike007]

I don't think anybody is going to lose any sleep over this incident, and over this permanent deportation. There's never a situation that calls for violence against the police or immigration. We might be frustrated with them from time to time, and I have verbally aunosed both in the past. But a physical attack? That's right out of a Bollywood, goombah film, that's not a reality here in Thailand that we're accustomed to.

 

See ya! You won't be missed. 

[Dave0206]

Ok hands up who is busy checking where this place is ?

[Iron Tongue]

49 minutes ago, Hakuna Matata said:

Is it easy to buy Vanuatu passport?

All it takes is American dollars, $250,000 of them.

But that was back during the good ol' days when Vanuatu would issue Diplomatic Passports for money and Vanuatu and the EU had a visa free agreement.

This meant you could enter & leave the EU with a Vanuatu passport and not have your bags searched.  Just one entry from Peru probably paid for the cost of the passport.

EU finally got wise and Vanautu passports are only good for 3rd world countries and Russia.

[SiSePuede419]

Sounds like Team Curry Fury was just trying to shake things up. 😄

 

[jasonsamui55]

I’d like to see his lawsuit in a Thai court trying to get a refund of his Thailand elite fees. 🤔

[soi3eddie]

3 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Indian - Vanuatu nationality, what are the odds of this guy having any Melanesian heritage??

Err Zero? Aren't Indians supposed to be prohibited from holding 2nd citizenships anyway? Sounds like the guy was using money buying a 2nd citizenship to try to avoid something. Now he's <deleted>!

 

Edited October 29, 2023 by soi3eddie

[RichardColeman]

Proof if ever that Thailand would rather give expensive visas to villains than easy visas for poorer people with Thai families

[scorecard]

1 hour ago, harleyclarkey said:

Dem Injins are getting feisty. Is this the same lot who had a go the other day-or another bunch? 

What a lot of plonkers-mollusc brains.

 

Attacking any Thai official especially a foreigner is not what any sane person would contemplate. 

 

True, but these types think they are above the law and back in their own countries they probably are, and violence is the way to show they are above the law, and they have their own small army to prove it. 

 

Seen this at New Delhi airport, with taxi mafia. The airport officials very afraid of them. Car and driver and 2 assistants sent to pick me up by the giant company I was visiting were attacked by the taxi mafia because they hadn't paid a 'fee' to the mafia. Company car attacked, all 4 doors ripped half off and driver and 2 assistants severely bashed and taken to hospital. 

 

Mafia boss approached me and insisted I take his car. His minions had already (unknown to me) collected my 2 suitcases and they were already in his car.

 

Airport snr. officers quickly / quietly told me 'take the mafia car'. I did and it dropped off at the hotel wthout further incident but I had to pay the fare, which in comparison to the west was a tiny amount. 

[scorecard]

55 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

Err Zero? Aren't Indians supposed to be prohibited from holding 2nd citizenships anyway? Sounds like the guy was using money buying a 2nd citizenship to try to avoid something. Now he's <deleted>!

 

Do you believe Indiand follow any laws. They just ignore such things.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Officers have arrested Mr. NIKHIL ARORA, Indian/Vanuatu national. He had a Thailand Privilege Visa, previously Thailand Elite. He had an arrest warrant from the Phuket Kwaeng Court for allegedly threatening another Indian man. He was the main target of the Immigration operation.

Quality tourists....

[Olmate]

1 hour ago, Dave0206 said:

Ok hands up who is busy checking where this place is ?

Check for Anglo/French cockups or countries otherthan Australia that James Cook barstardised! 

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, madmitch said:

Expensive but easy. One of those countries that gives a passport for a wad of cash. 

A bit like Malta... EU's loophole that needs plugging.

[Crossy]

Looks like they had some pets too: -

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2023/10/28/indians-who-hurt-phuket-officials-have-lions-in-their-villa/

 

[Lopburikid]

2 hours ago, harleyclarkey said:

Dem Injins are getting feisty. Is this the same lot who had a go the other day-or another bunch? 

What a lot of plonkers-mollusc brains.

 

Attacking any Thai official especially a foreigner is not what any sane person would contemplate. 

The same bunch. See the Elite Visa is getting the foreigners Thailand wanted . ha!

[ThaiFelix]

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Sounds like Team Curry Fury was just trying to shake things up. 😄

 

Shouldnt it be the opposite, the body stay still and the head shake?

[bbbbooboo]

hmmmm... he had an "elite" aka "privileged" visa. The irony of this is beyond words and i suggest pokes enormous holes in the vetting process of the thai elite visa system. One might also wonder how many other similar cases there are ? This is a shocker to put it mildly

[gravity101]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Not good optics for Thai Elite….  
Indian - Vanuatu nationality, what are the odds of this guy having any Melanesian heritage??

Aren't there Thai Elite police checks ?

 

Paid guards fighting immigration ??? A ban means nothing…, 

Would be interesting to see stats on elite visa refusals. I'm betting its near zero. 

[Smokey and the Bandit]

2 hours ago, sumongkhwai said:

Destroy his Indian passport and send him back to Vanuatu, I'm sure he be welcomed with open arms and spears.

I don't think they, Thai Immigration, can destroy any foreigners passport!

[brianthainess]

57 minutes ago, ThaiFelix said:

Shouldnt it be the opposite, the body stay still and the head shake?

Like this a Neck wobble

[Smokey and the Bandit]

9 minutes ago, gravity101 said:

Would be interesting to see stats on elite visa refusals. I'm betting its near zero. 

Probably correct, like everything else in Thailand, if you got the money you can do it?

[Walker88]

Interesting how different nationalities of 'tourists' take over different aspects of Thailand's 'economy'. There's biker gangs (a veritable UN), the russian mafia, the Chinese triads, and the Indians. The Nigerian drug dealers---who can even be spotted by Western schoolkids on Sukhumvit in Bangkok, have local allies who wear tight-fitting brown uniforms. All are part of that wonderful fabric of Thai society.

 

Indians bring in a few thousand of their 1.4 billion fellow citizens and start them out selling nuts. Pretty legit business, though nobody selling nuts has any sort of work permit. Do well and move up to fake watches. Succeed irritating al fresco diners with Piajays and Rollekes, and one gets a motorscooter and becomes a loan shark. Should any ill gotten gangs be stuck with money that needs a proper cleansing, there's your restaurant and now Pattaya nightclub.

 

Everybody wins, especially the goombahs (a Hindu word absconded by other mafia types).

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by Walker88

[Datsun 1200]

I had to provide a Police Check from Australia to Elte Visa, they do check, and

if you did anything that  can get you prison time here, they refuse it (apparently, as per their rules)

 

IH