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Pictures courtesy of Matichon.

 

Police have arrested a 29-year-old Indian national for attempting to pay for food and drinks with a forged bank transfer slip at a well-known pub on Walking Street.

 

Pol. Col. Anek Sathongyoo, Chief of Pattaya City Police Station, ordered Pol. Lt. Col. Arut Sathanon, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division, to lead a joint operation with tourism police to apprehend Mr. Gurubakshish Singh Kohli. The arrest was made at a hotel in South Pattaya, under a warrant issued by Pattaya Provincial Court (No. 456/2568 dated 7 August 2025).

 

Mr. Kohli faces charges of forging official documents, using forged documents and ordering food and beverages knowing he could not pay for them.

 

Authorities tracked the suspect to the hotel and brought him in for questioning at Pattaya City Police Station. During interrogation, he admitted to being the person named in the arrest warrant.

 

The investigation revealed that the suspect visited a popular Indian pub on Walking Street and, upon receiving a bill of approximately 90,000 baht for food and drinks, presented a fake bank transfer slip claiming he had already paid. However, when the pub staff checked their bank account, no such payment had been received, prompting them to file a complaint.

 

Pol. Col. Anek stated that although the suspect claimed this was his first offence, the police remain cautious. He urged local business operators to report any similar suspicious behaviour or possible encounters with the same individual to Pattaya City Police Station at any time to help prevent repeated offences and aid further investigations.

 

The suspect is currently undergoing further questioning and will face formal charges before prosecution.

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Matichon 2025-08-10

 

 

 

Another quality tourist 

90,000 baht bill. What did he order? Must have been more then food and drinks.

90,000 baht. haha ... 1000 lap dances 

You know how many 3 somes I could get for 90k.

Seems like india getting close to russia providing "quality tourists" 😉

 

This guy is an amateur at a piffling 90k. A few GoGo bars still display boards with their top-rated bar bins. From memory I think the highest I saw recently was north of 250K from somebody with a Korean sounding name.

 

Mind you, the Korean actually paid the bin. 

18 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

This guy is an amateur at a piffling 90k. A few GoGo bars still display boards with their top-rated bar bins. From memory I think the highest I saw recently was north of 250K from somebody with a Korean sounding name.

 

Mind you, the Korean actually paid the bin. 

 

I remember about 20 years ago in my favourite bar on second road.

Four Brits, bookies, who would come over about 6 times a year, and stay for close to two weeks each time.

When here they would spend between 50 and 70k each, every night they were here, and that was only in that bar.

Small time, low intelligence crook.  Didn't realize his name was on the bank transfer, and was also reported to immigration immediately upon check in to his hotel.  Wouldn't have taken cops long to nab him!

11 hours ago, ozz1 said:

Another quality tourist 

Well the type who spends 90,000 baht on food and drinks yes, the type who doesn't pay, very much no! How much would one need to consume to run up such a tab....400 over priced beers?

They should have known better. The QR code payments are limited to 50k.

I am surprised they let him leave the premises before checking their bank account