Five immigration officers jailed for 15 years each for extortion

[snoop1130]

 

Five immigration police officers were sentenced to 15 years in prison each today, after they were found guilty by the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases of extorting 10 million baht from a Chinese businessman in exchange for dropping a charge against him.

 

The sixth defendant, a civilian named “Surachai”, was given ten years in prison.

 

Named as defendants by the public prosecutors were Pol Maj Sorawit, Pol Maj Chirapat, Pol Lt Suriya, Pol Lt Prawit and Pol MSgt (first class) Phirasak.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-02-12

 

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[steven100]

oh the Irony ...  Thai cops charging ( thier own )  IO's with extortion ....    maybe they should do a thorough clean up of the RTP.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 12 by steven100

[FritsSikkink]

1 minute ago, steven100 said:

oh the Irony ...  Thai cops charging IO's with extortion ....    maybe they should clean up their own backyard.

IO's are Thai cops.

[Mavideol]

I am surprised / appalled by the quantity, only 5, is it possible they missed a couple zeros .... 555

[steven100]

6 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

IO's are Thai cops.

I realize that ....  and I'm saying they should clean up the RTP also.

[steven100]

6 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

I am surprised / appalled by the quantity, only 5, is it possible they missed a couple zeros .... 555

agree .. they are plentiful ..

 

 

Edited February 12 by steven100

[zhounan]

Idiots, if they had extorted money from a farang at most they would have risked transfer.

[Geoffggi]

Did they also charge the Chinese man for having the fake ID ??

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Five immigration police officers were sentenced to 15 years in prison each today, after they were found guilty by the Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases of extorting 10 million baht from a Chinese businessman in exchange for dropping a charge against him.

Tip of a very large ice-berg.

[Classic Ray]

These are not just street level cops, they are fairly senior officers. The fish rots from the head.

[mikebell]

I think there's been a crooked RTP story every week for the last 19 years of my stay here; mostly low hanging fruit.  Agree with Classic Ray above.

[Scouse123]

Somebody obviously missed out on their cut.

[bokningar]

If you don't send the money up the food chain you will be punished.

Not for taking the money.

[crazykopite]

Will they be submitting applications for a pardon next week they only have to cite a certain individual !!!

[SABloke]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Tip of a very large ice-berg.

Yep, they're skimming everywhere. Down south, I've seen the lines of farm workers doing their 90 day reporting. However, each of them are also charged a service fee of 100 Baht. Last time I was in, I saw them take about 5,000 Baht for this service in about 30 minutes. I wonder how many workers are charged this fee monthly? 

[Neeranam]

I estimate there are 300,000 farang that aid and abet these corrupt officers.

[steven100]

They are the lowest of the low in my book. 

Real scum ... 

they continue taking money from low paid workers year after year with impunity.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The OP article talks about the Chinese guy being arrested in the Din Daeng area of central Bangkok...

 

So presumably, the 5 convicted and now imprisoned Immigration officers were operating within the Chaengwattana IO jurisdiction.

 

PS - as is too common with Thai news reports here... zero mention of whether these 5 will remain in custody, or have been or will be released on bail pending potential appeals.

 

Edited February 13 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Emdog]

53 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I estimate there are 300,000 farang that aid and abet these corrupt officers.

I wonder how many of them are on this forum: the ones that use visa services that somehow "gets around" the large bank account provision of retirement extension... part of those fees must go towards "greasing the wheels" at immigration to get farangs visas that don't qualify if they follow the law

[transam]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I estimate there are 300,000 farang that aid and abet these corrupt officers.

How did you do that....?

Explanation please.........🤔

[bbi1]

13 minutes ago, Emdog said:

I wonder how many of them are on this forum: the ones that use visa services that somehow "gets around" the large bank account provision of retirement extension... part of those fees must go towards "greasing the wheels" at immigration to get farangs visas that don't qualify if they follow the law

I suspect there are a ton of those dodgy farangs on this forum who use bribes through agents & immigration officers to stay here while not qualifying/following the retirement extension laws. A crackdown on these dodgy farangs, agents and IOs are coming soon.

Edited February 13 by bbi1

[steven100]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

PS - as is too common with Thai news reports here... zero mention of whether these 5 will remain in custody, or have been or will be released on bail pending potential appeals.

 

remain in custody   !!   come on Johnny boy '    you should know this is just Theatrics !      otherwise they could nab 100's of IO's and thousands of police    ....      and why is Big Joke not mentioned to clean it up  ''

because it's just for show         !!!!!

[lordgrinz]

Obviously someone was not passing the envelopes up the ladder, let that be a lesson for those who wish to run their own show, the Royal Thai Mafia has your number.

[Artisi]

4 hours ago, Neeranam said:

I estimate there are 300,000 farang that aid and abet these corrupt officers.

You can reduce that by 1 on my account. 

[Neeranam]

3 hours ago, Emdog said:

I wonder how many of them are on this forum: the ones that use visa services that somehow "gets around" the large bank account provision of retirement extension... part of those fees must go towards "greasing the wheels" at immigration to get farangs visas that don't qualify if they follow the law

Probably a lot. I played golf recently with 3 guys who all use agents to bypass the requirement to keep funds in the bank. They talked about it as if it was legal to do!

[Olmate]

7 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Probably a lot. I played golf recently with 3 guys who all use agents to bypass the requirement to keep funds in the bank. They talked about it as if it was legal to do!

Guilt by association! Someone should grass you then.

[steven100]

8 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Probably a lot. I played golf recently with 3 guys who all use agents to bypass the requirement to keep funds in the bank. They talked about it as if it was legal to do!

don't even go down that road.  

[scorecard]

3 hours ago, bbi1 said:

I suspect there are a ton of those dodgy farangs on this forum who use bribes through agents & immigration officers to stay here while not qualifying/following the retirement extension laws. A crackdown on these dodgy farangs, agents and IOs are coming soon.

 

There's also quite a few who do everything strictly according to the law.

 

Get PR (if you qualify) then 99% - 100% of issues needing some 'tweeking' no longer exist.

[ChaiyaTH]

Let me guess; they all get pardons when the news got quiet.

[john donson]

a drop in the bucket... any office accepting agents is corrupt...