Mass raid as police close in in Phuket ex-mayor
Tanyaluk Sakoot


Officers begin to go through the paperwork found in Pian's wife's house.

PHUKET: -- More than 200 police include officers of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) descended on Patong this morning armed with 83 arrest warrants in what promises to be a huge shake-up of Phuket’s tourism capital.

Led by Region 8 Commissioner Lt Gen Panya Mamen and officers from Bangkok, the first place the police visited was a home of former mayor Pian Keesin, where they were met by his first wife and their daughter.

They showed her the search warrant for the five-bedroom house.

His wife – who is also the mother of Prap “Mr Big” Keesin, told them, “I don’t know where he is. He has many wives. He comes to visit us but he doesn’t stay here.”

AMLO officers asked her where Pian keeps his documents and she led them to the second floor where she showed them a storage room full of documents – and a shotgun.

As the search continues in the house, other teams of officers are searching for Pian.

More to come as the story unfolds.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/mass-raid-as-police-close-in-in-phuket-ex-mayor-48071.php

-- Phuket News 2014-08-28

Oh dear ................

Did he escaped to Dubai in time?

Go for the top cheese and you get the rat every time.

How come he can have many wives ? I know in Thailand you can have several mistress but wives ....... the Thainess are its maximum ....

Search for what ?. He was tipped off long ago .....!

>>He has many wives

Sure he does, mia noi, mia gep, mai chow. Might explain all of the graft........................

One wonders, is the shot gun to protect herself from her former husbands enemies or to protect herself from Pians many wives?

Search for what ?. He was tipped off long ago .....!

Correct - he would have cleaned out any incriminating evidence a long time ago.

s@@T just got real, as the youngsters may say!

Search for what ?. He was tipped off long ago .....!

Correct - he would have cleaned out any incriminating evidence a long time ago.

Any rational criminal would have done so, but this guy thought he was above the law, so who knows? Perhaps letting the heat cool down from the Kata/Karon raids gave him a sense of complacency, hopefully.

As i remember some weeks ago a local newspaper ran an artical quoting a top police official "saying they had personally spoke to him and told him they were going to arrest him "so im very doughtful there much to look at ...

As i remember some weeks ago a local newspaper ran an artical quoting a top police official "saying they had personally spoke to him and told him they were going to arrest him "so im very doughtful there much to look at ...

Maybe,maybe not. But they still have to check it all anyway.

We can hope my friend we can hope!

As i remember some weeks ago a local newspaper ran an artical quoting a top police official "saying they had personally spoke to him and told him they were going to arrest him "so im very doughtful there much to look at ...

That was right after the initial raid in Kata/Karon and Pian asked if he was going to b arrested, and the answer IIRC, was "yes, but not yet".

Let's see if anything comes out of this

Frankly, as long as his influence is taken away, that's the important thing.

A spent force, not a puppet master.

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The guy could finger his protection so they tipped him off.

The Phuket mafia is in chaos now. Fun.

This could indeed get VERY interesting....

A few of his mates might be worried now.

I'll bet he owes allot of money around town now that he can't offer his services.

How many business have been shut after he took the money?

And what about his cash-flow? I'll bet allot of people owe him money too. He had millions coming and going every month.

This must be incredibly stressful. Good.

Phuket 'mafia taxi' police raids net 66 of 83 targets
Tanyaluk Sakoot

Target No 1: Ex-mayor Pian Keesin.

PHUKET: -- Sixty six people out of the 83 targeted in this morning’s massive raid on Patong aimed at destroying the “taxi mafia” in the town were arrested, police have announced.

Full story: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/755614-phuket-mafia-taxi-police-raids-net-66-of-83-targets/

baht bus anyone?

Frankly, as long as his influence is taken away, that's the important thing.

A spent force, not a puppet master.

But is the new Mayor of Patong up to the task of not only "selling positive change" to the people, but also, ensuring, such changes, if any, are enforced?

A certain Bangkok paper spells out the charges much better than the local news. Fair use from this article below:

Mr Pian and his son formed an organisation to carry out criminal activities using the hotels and resorts as a front.

The suspects were found to have run illegal transport operations, suppressed competitors and dodged tax since 2005, he said

The suspects are influential in local politics and the biggest mafia in Phuket

Several alleged offences breach Section 3(6) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, which concerns extortion, he said

The list goes on from there, but the investigators have done some pretty thorough investigating.

What's the statute of limitations?

Just so he knows how much to pack.

I saw Keesin yesterday. He was in Hooters eating buffalo wings with Elvis.

Brilliant.

I bet there's quite a few rich and powerful Thais with squeaky bums and a sense of shock at how they might not have been completely unaccountable for their criminal behaviour after all.

What's the statute of limitations?

Just so he knows how much to pack.

They can run and escape criminal charges by not appearing before a judge to hear the charges.

The civil case can proceed and they could clean him out while he is hiding I believe.