Phuket Immigration: Deporting, Blacklisting Foreigners For Drug Charges Since 1979

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Phuket Immigration: Deporting, blacklisting foreigners for drug charges since 1979
Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- Following the recent spate of foreigners being charged with minor drug offenses, the chief of Phuket Immigration today confirmed that all foreigners arrested for drug use, or any drug-related offense, are transferred to Bangkok and deported – following the Immigration Act BE 2522.

“The law is not new. It has been in use since 1979. Any foreigners found guilty in any drug cases will be deported,” Phuket Immigration Superintendent Sunchai Chokkajaykij told the Phuket Gazette.

“The law has never been changed. There is nothing new as mentioned in recent news,” said Col Sunchai.

“Any foreigners found guilty of any drug offense will also be on the immigration blacklist [banning entry to Thailand] for five years,” he added.

Even when a foreigner receives a suspended sentence for a drug offense, the suspect is still sent to the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok, where he will be added to the blacklist and then deported, he said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2013/Phuket-Immigration-Deporting-blacklisting-foreigners-for-drug-charges-since-1979-21173.html


-- Phuket Gazette 2013-05-28

[JetsetBkk]

Good.

[Tywais]

Good.

Yes and no. Yes if indeed a valid arrest. Concern is someone with a grudge or police wanting 'extra' earnings plants something on someone. That would worry me the most.

[NamKangMan]

Good.

Yes and no. Yes if indeed a valid arrest. Concern is someone with a grudge or police wanting 'extra' earnings plants something on someone. That would worry me the most.

Or a Thai "girlfriend" who wants to get rid of her farang boyfriend, after he has bought a house and/or land in her name.

Edited May 28, 2013 by NamKangMan

[eezergood]

Deporting them - unless they can pay

[IrishIvan]

Effective deterrent since 1979?

[lee b]

i never knew this law was in place, as some farangs still here after being done for drug offences

[BeforeTigers]

Could be worse.