Police raid uncover over 8,000 counterfeit car license plates

BANGKOK: -- Police raided a printing house in Rong Muang area, Bangkok Metropolis, on Thursday and seized altogether 8,400 counterfeit car license plates.

Led by Pol Lt-Gen Srivara Rangseepromnakul, the metropolitan police commissioner, the raiding team searched the Chor Kityont store which is a five-storey shophouse in Rong Muang area.

Four workers were at work at the time of the police raid which uncovered five printing machines, several molds of police and military insignias.

Pol Col Atthaporn Suriyalert, superintendent of news analysis and special equipments of metropolitan police bureau, explained that only the Land Transport Department had the right to issue car license plates. He said that the raid stemmed from the store’s advertising of its products in the social media.

Pol Lt-Gen Srivara said counterfeiting of car license plates could pose a security threat because the plates could be used for criminal activities.

The store-owner, Mr Thitikul Lertwattanarak, 39, claimed that the store had been in the business of printing car license plates for 20 years without any problem from the police. He said he was totally unaware that such activities were a crime.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/police-raid-uncover-over-8000-counterfeit-car-license-plates


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The store-owner, Mr Thitikul Lertwattanarak, 39, claimed that the store had been in the business of printing car license plates for 20 years without any problem from the police. He said he was totally unaware that such activities were a crime.

This is the problem we are having now. Crimes have been ongoing for so long, they think they are entitled to continue their actions. Very difficult to change things here due to this. The sense of entitlement is well cemented into their mindset. And for good reason.

"the store had been in the business of printing car license plates for 20 years without any problem from the police"

And there you have it folks!

"the store had been in the business of printing car license plates for 20 years without any problem from the police"

And there you have it folks!

Lat Phrao Rd for many years has several shops where you could got those plates from.. why the police

woke up now, that's a mystery....

I'm constantly gobsmacked when I walk past several shops in Chinatown making plates in full view of the public. They even have sandwich boards out front of the different designs. Look in the shop and there's benches of guys making plates.

I wondered how that works...

.....so much for 'nipping it in the bud'.........

....all these years.....so much complicity...........

....and denial that this racket ever existed...........

...and of course..........nobody guilty....nobody to blame........

...so nauseating.......

...and it's the same for every crime .....

Lat Phrao Rd for many years has several shops where you could got those plates from.. why the police

woke up now, that's a mystery....

Because of pressure from the army. I was on Sukhumvit for part of this week. Saw the cops ticketing a scooter driver. Why? A man in green was right there. No vendors on the sidewalks now. Why? I saw a man in green patrolling the area around 6PM, tagging along with the police who use to profit off this. I guess they are allowed back after that time???

Same when I was up north a few months ago. Roadside check points are now manned by men in green. Immigration control at the border had a man in green just sitting there.

strange situation in business for 25years didn't know it was a crime to print car license plates why did it take so long for the police to catch up ?

It has always been illegal for anyone to make government or state issued items except when contracted out by the government or state. This is just a excuse and not knowing just

means one does not care ones stupidity does not reflect on the law. The law just was not enforced, now we have someone who is finally enforcing the laws.

Bull Sh-t!

Lat Phrao Rd for many years has several shops where you could got those plates from.. why the police

woke up now, that's a mystery....

because Prayut is kicking out all lazy and corrupt one at the moment

It has always been illegal for anyone to make government or state issued items except when contracted out by the government or state. This is just a excuse and not knowing just

means one does not care ones stupidity does not reflect on the law. The law just was not enforced, now we have someone who is finally enforcing the laws.

... and then in the west, they enacted "Ignorance is no excuse of the law."