Thai immigration police have arrested a 33-year-old Chinese national wanted on fraud charges in China after tracking him to a condominium in Bangkok’s Thonglor district. Officers from Immigration Division 1 said the suspect, identified only as “Jackie”, had allegedly caused losses exceeding 10 million baht through a failed technology investment business before fleeing to Thailand and hiding for more than two years.

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The operation formed part of a nationwide crackdown ordered by National Police Chief Pol Gen Kitrat Phanphet targeting transnational crime and foreign nationals breaking Thai law. Immigration Bureau Commissioner Lt Gen Phanumart Boonyalak said officers had been instructed to intensify enforcement under immigration laws and prevent Thailand being used as a base for criminal activity.

Investigators said Chinese authorities, through the Chinese embassy and the Royal Thai Police Foreign Affairs Division, alerted Thai police to the suspect’s whereabouts. According to investigators, the man had repeatedly changed his hairstyle, clothing style and accommodation while moving between hotels and rented condominiums in Bangkok and Chiang Mai in an effort to evade arrest.

Immigration officers eventually identified a condominium in Thonglor, Khlong Toei district, as his current hiding place after weeks of surveillance. Police said the suspect rarely left the property and relied on his girlfriend to buy food and daily necessities. Officers revoked his permission to stay in Thailand and detained him when he reportedly left the condominium to change his hairstyle again.

Following his arrest, the suspect admitted he had co-founded a technology investment business in China with friends. He said the business later suffered financial losses, leaving him unable to repay investors, and acknowledged using some of the funds for personal expenses before fleeing through several ASEAN countries and eventually settling in Thailand.

Thaitabloid Maj Gen Prasart Khemmaprasit, commander of Immigration Division 1, said Thai authorities would continue strict screening and monitoring of foreign nationals considered a risk to society. He urged the public to report information about suspected illegal activity involving foreign nationals through Royal Thai Police and Immigration Bureau channels.

Picture courtesy of Thaitabloid

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Adapted by ASEAN Now Thaitabloid 15 May 2026

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Time to screen Chinese tourists more thoroughly, before they arrive here. Almost daily they make the news.

Another one of those cases where Thai authorities hold the press conference after making an arrest of a foreigner.

You see this over and over, the suspect lives here for months or years without issue, then suddenly there’s an alert from another country and that’s when Immigration swoops in.

It raises the question of how many of these people would ever be found if foreign agencies didn’t provide the details first. Still, you could say the cooperation is working, even if it’s reactive rather than proactive.