I don't live in pataya but I traval down there often for some fun I was talking to a bar girl a few weeks ago she was telling me a farang was interested in her she knew him for quite a while and he had asked her to stop the bar work and move in with him but to do so she told me she had to pay off the mafia 5,000 bt to get out of her "contract" and stop work she seemed genuine and knew I wasn't a typical tourist who just take in all these sob story's to back a few extra baht and she wasn't asking or expecting any money from me but it made me wonder first if this kind of thing still happens and second what kind of power do the mafia Thai Russian or other still have here

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