I have to say that the government’s current nominee crusade is starting to look like the usual one‑sided enforcement. Foreigners get all the headlines, while the Thai facilitators, the accountants, “service companies,” paper shareholders, and friendly directors all somehow melt into the background. Everyone knows nominee structures don’t appear spontaneously. A foreigner can’t just conjure a Thai shareholder out of thin air. There’s always a Thai side: someone selling the service, someone signing the forms, someone collecting the monthly fee! If the foreigner is “active”, the Thai participant is “passive”, and both are essential to the offence. Same logic as the bribery law. Same structure. Same culpability. But enforcement never seems to reach that second half. The foreigner is marched off for violating the Foreign Business Act, while the Thai nominee provider quietly closes the office for a week and reopens under a new name. The crackdown becomes a photo‑op rather than a clean‑up. If the government were serious, it would also be draging the Thai side into the light. Charge the nominee sellers. Charge the paper shareholders. Charge the directors who sign false declarations. Otherwise, this isn’t a crackdown, it’s selective prosecution dressed up as reform. And, it also conveniently deflects attention from this current government's underachieving in other areas!
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