The Guilty Visa Runners

[taxexile]

a couple of months ago there were stories of mass arrests at borders and airports of foriegners with fake visas and fake immigration stamps in their passports,since then little has been heard in the way of follow up stories as to what happened to those people.

are they still locked up? are they on bail? have they been deported or blacklisted?

does anyone have first hand or second hand knowledge of how those stories developed?

[MekhongKurt]

A senior immigration NCO friend of mine told me a couple weeks ago that some had been deported, some of those blacklisted, who were apprehended on the Laotian, Cambodian, and Malaysian borders in the crackdown. He added he'd heard that others had been allowed to leave, get a proper visa, and return. Guess the officers on the spot made decisions case by case.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

I think that your friend is telling it as it is Kurt. But I think the warning must be kept well in mind for the future.

[bluebear]

a couple of months ago there were stories of mass arrests at borders and airports of foriegners with fake visas and fake immigration stamps in their passports,since then little has been heard in the way of follow up stories as to what happened to those people.

are they still locked up? are they on bail? have they been deported or blacklisted?

does anyone have first hand or second hand knowledge of how those stories developed?

The guy at my apartment buiding is still out on bail waiting for his trial to go ahead.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

He's one of the unlucky one's Bluebear. What does he think will happen to him?

[Guest ka1234]

If they were Burmese, they would be shot in the head, have old tires put around their bodies and then be burnt (to make the corpse more difficult to identify). You can see photos of Burmese workers on the front page of Thai Rath every now and then. Sometimes rumours claim that a local police officer may have been involved... Criminal farangs are treated with silk gloves...

[Rambutan]

Do you think they would do that if they were as poor as the Burmese?

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Sick responses....I am closing the topic