Thai gov. to tax (remitted) income from abroad for tax residents starting 2024 - Part II

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BANGKOK BLAST
Wanted woman 'in Turkey'
The Nation



Thai woman flew out of Phuket in July; bomb materials found in flat she rented, police say; relative claims she will return to deny any role in blasts

BANGKOK: -- THE hunt for those behind the Erawan Shrine bombing two weeks ago has narrowed, with arrest warrants issued for two more suspects - one of them a Thai woman from the South.

However, police have been unable to clearly pinpoint the motive for Bangkok's worst bomb attack. They have come up with the theory that the culprits may have been human smugglers angered by the government's crackdown on the illegal trade, a source familiar with the ongoing investigation said yesterday.

Previously, possible suspects included political rivals, organised criminal gangs, Islamic militants, southern insurgents and sympathisers of Uighur refugees.

Four arrest warrants have so far been issued in connection with the two blasts - the male shrine bomber seen wearing a yellow shirt and a man in a blue shirt who dropped an explosive device at Sathorn pier. That device exploded the day after the shrine attack but no one was injured.

Meanwhile, police investigators have found footage from closed-circuit TV cameras near Hua Lamphong Railway Station that shows the shrine bomber receiving a backpack similar to one used in the bombing from a man in a white shirt, another police source said.

Min Buri Provincial Court yesterday granted a police request to issue arrest warrants for Phang Nga resident Wanna Suansan, 26, who is also known by the Muslim name Maisaloh, and a man of an unspecified nationality.

Police said Wanna rented an apartment in Min Buri in eastern Bangkok for the man.

A sketch of the unidentified man, who looks to be a foreigner, was issued along with the arrest warrant.

The wanted woman left Thailand on July 1 from Phuket airport for Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, according to a police source. Video footage showed her with a man who looks like the man in the police sketch. However, there is no immigration record of him leaving Thailand.

A search of Wanna's rented room found gunpowder, urea fertiliser and other bomb-making materials, Royal Thai Police spokesman Lt-General Prawut Thavornsiri said.

Police searched her house in Phang Nga yesterday afternoon. A relative of Wanna at the house said she was in Turkey, the country of her husband.

The relative said Wanna had insisted she was not involved with the blasts and would come back soon to turn herself in to police.

But Prawut said: "We are confident that these two people are in the same group of people responsible for the blasts at the Ratchaprasong intersection and the Sathon pier."

He said more arrest warrants would be issued soon but declined elaborate.

The foreigner of unknown nationality arrested on Saturday at an apartment in Nong Chok is still denying involvement in the blasts, a source said. However, substances found on his clothes were similar to what was used in the bombs.

Police will conduct a DNA test in a bid to confirm his link with the blasts, the source added.

The man, who held a fake Turkish passport, is being detained at the 11th Military Circle in Bangkok's Dusit district, where security has been increased. No media are allowed to take photographs or do video recordings at the agency.

Prawut dismissed a report that police were detaining four Palestinians in connection with the investigation. But he could not confirm or deny they were being detained by the military.

The spokesman said police were conducting searches in many locations but declined to discuss the operation in detail. He urged owners of apartment buildings with foreign tenants to prepare copies of CCTV recordings of the tenants for police examination.

National police chief General Somyot Poompanmuang met Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Government House yesterday to report on progress in the investigation. The PM told reporters afterwards that the mass media should avoid making wild speculation about the case or they could further complicate the probe.

In the government's newsletter for September 1 (today), General Prayut wrote: "I and all the Cabinet members promise that we will do the best of our ability to prevent such an incident from happening again. And we will find all the perpetrators to be punished in accordance with the law."

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Wanted-woman-in-Turkey-30267859.html


-- The Nation 2015-09-01

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Soldiers, Police Sweep Southern Home of Thai Bombing Suspect
By Khaosod English


Security forces interview the family of bombing suspect Wanna Suansan today in Phang Nga province.

PHANG NGA — For three months, bombing suspect Wanna Suansan has not returned to her home in the south of Thailand, her family said.

As a warrant was being issued in Bangkok for Wanna’s arrest in connection with the bomb attack, a combined force of police and military converged on the Thai woman’s family home and interviewed her relatives today in Phang Nga province.

At around 2pm today soldiers and policemen arrived at Wanna’s family home and conducted a search of the property for any suspicious material. No illegal items were found in the search, police said.

Her family members told police she has not been back home for three months.

According to a reporter on the scene in Phang Nga, a police officer told one of the relatives to use the Line chat application to contact Wanna and ask where she was, at which point Wanna allegedly replied that she is in Turkey.

Full storyhttp://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1441020527&typecate=06&section=


-- Khaosod English 2015-09-01

[smedly]

I am getting the impression a large stone is about to be uncovered with this.

It is very possible this woman was not aware of anything illegal going on with her supposed husband and his associates, it is starting to look to me like Thailand has been used as the Hub of something that has a strong connection to Turkey and muslims

[BSJ]

The plot thickens!

[Toknarok]

Here's the original article from AFP who spoke to the woman in question.

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-woman-suspect-in-turkey-denies-link-to-bangkok-bom

[Charlie Croker]

Its a very strange set of circumstances and people keep labelling Turkey as the key. Like its a mythical Casablanca, especially seeing as there are murky politics afoot there too.

I find it difficult to believe that p!$$ed off people-smugglers would attract international police and anti-terrorist taskforce attention because they were miffed about their operations in the south being disrupted.

The foreigner caught on Saturday looks Russian. All together they look like guns for hire.

I suspect they are a cut out group. Funded by someone who has long demonstrated his ire against this government.

This is another in a long line of failed despicable attempts to take back power.

[zaphod reborn]

I am getting the impression a large stone is about to be uncovered with this.

It is very possible this woman was not aware of anything illegal going on with her supposed husband and his associates, it is starting to look to me like Thailand has been used as the Hub of something that has a strong connection to Turkey and muslims

There's no stone to be uncovered. Just waiting for RTP and the Junta to come clean that Thailand was being used as a hub for the illegal smuggling of terrorists by ISIL. Of course, being tier 3 on the TIP report means this is extremely bad news for Thailand. It also means that Thailand needs to do an investigation of its police force, immigration officials, politicians and government officials who all either feigned ignorance of the matter or who were complicit and received money from ISIL in exchange for protection. But, we know that will never happen.

9 April 2015: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports in order to travel to Turkey and then enter Syria to join ISIL, a daily reported on Thursday. According to a story in the Meydan daily, A.G., an aide of Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working for ISIL to provide militants with passports worldwide, Nurali T.'s office in İstanbul's Zeytinburnu district functions as an ISIL passport office. Each passport was sold for $200, A.G. told Meydan. More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in İstanbul, Meydan reported. A.G. claimed that most of the Uyghurs with fake passports were caught by police in Turkish airports but they were released in Turkey after their passports were seized. “The Uyghurs' release in Turkey is due to a secret [little-known] Turkish law on Uyghur Turks. More than 50,000 Uyghurs joined ISIL through this method,” A.G. added.

A.G. further said that Nurali T. organizes recruits from around the world from his İstanbul office. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they join ISIL in Syria, A.G. said. http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_report-more-than-100000-fake-turkish-passports-given-to-isil_377534.html

Edited September 1, 2015 by zaphod reborn

[mcfish]

Is this for real?

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/01/10/38/thai-police-give-themselves-100-000-reward-for-arresting-bangkok-bombing-suspect

Thai police have rewarded themselves with a $100,000 cash prize

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

So this would kind of seem to suggest that this woman's husband really is a Turk, and may well mean that the guy arrested by Thai police in BKK may also be a Turk, though he may not have the same actual identity as that listed on his phony passport.

So, please explain how the way this case is evolving doesn't equate to a case of international terrorism, as the Thai police keep insisting...

[simple1]

I am getting the impression a large stone is about to be uncovered with this.

It is very possible this woman was not aware of anything illegal going on with her supposed husband and his associates, it is starting to look to me like Thailand has been used as the Hub of something that has a strong connection to Turkey and muslims

There's no stone to be uncovered. Just waiting for RTP and the Junta to come clean that Thailand was being used as a hub for the illegal smuggling of terrorists by ISIL. Of course, being tier 3 on the TIP report means this is extremely bad news for Thailand. It also means that Thailand needs to do an investigation of its police force, immigration officials, politicians and government officials who all either feigned ignorance of the matter or who were complicit and received money from ISIL in exchange for protection. But, we know that will never happen.

9 April 2015: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports in order to travel to Turkey and then enter Syria to join ISIL, a daily reported on Thursday. According to a story in the Meydan daily, A.G., an aide of Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working for ISIL to provide militants with passports worldwide, Nurali T.'s office in İstanbul's Zeytinburnu district functions as an ISIL passport office. Each passport was sold for $200, A.G. told Meydan. More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in İstanbul, Meydan reported. A.G. claimed that most of the Uyghurs with fake passports were caught by police in Turkish airports but they were released in Turkey after their passports were seized. “The Uyghurs' release in Turkey is due to a secret [little-known] Turkish law on Uyghur Turks. More than 50,000 Uyghurs joined ISIL through this method,” A.G. added.

A.G. further said that Nurali T. organizes recruits from around the world from his İstanbul office. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they join ISIL in Syria, A.G. said. http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_report-more-than-100000-fake-turkish-passports-given-to-isil_377534.html

Total ISIS membership in Syria & Iraq, depending on which report you read, ranges between 50k to 200k, even if 200k this equates to 1in 4 are Uyghurs, which comes across as nonsense. The Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the ruling Communist Party, said in December that about 300 Chinese (read Uyghurs) are fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/11/chinese-authorities-say-muslim-uighurs-have-joined-isis/

[glaswegian]

this case is turning out to be comedy show wi no holds barred!!!

[Srikcir]

"I and all the Cabinet members promise that we will do the best of our ability to prevent such an incident from happening again."

Complying with UN directive on protection of refugees and not returning Uighurs to the CCP in the future would be a good start.

But somehow I don't see the junta placing the safety of refugees above its security agreement with China. Staying in power is the first priority, not morality.

[jamesbrock]

Curiously, the 'other' media organisation reported this morning that she is in Cambodia.

[jamesbrock]

I am getting the impression a large stone is about to be uncovered with this.

It is very possible this woman was not aware of anything illegal going on with her supposed husband and his associates, it is starting to look to me like Thailand has been used as the Hub of something that has a strong connection to Turkey and muslims

There's no stone to be uncovered. Just waiting for RTP and the Junta to come clean that Thailand was being used as a hub for the illegal smuggling of terrorists by ISIL. Of course, being tier 3 on the TIP report means this is extremely bad news for Thailand. It also means that Thailand needs to do an investigation of its police force, immigration officials, politicians and government officials who all either feigned ignorance of the matter or who were complicit and received money from ISIL in exchange for protection. But, we know that will never happen.

9 April 2015: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports in order to travel to Turkey and then enter Syria to join ISIL, a daily reported on Thursday. According to a story in the Meydan daily, A.G., an aide of Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working for ISIL to provide militants with passports worldwide, Nurali T.'s office in İstanbul's Zeytinburnu district functions as an ISIL passport office. Each passport was sold for $200, A.G. told Meydan. More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in İstanbul, Meydan reported. A.G. claimed that most of the Uyghurs with fake passports were caught by police in Turkish airports but they were released in Turkey after their passports were seized. “The Uyghurs' release in Turkey is due to a secret [little-known] Turkish law on Uyghur Turks. More than 50,000 Uyghurs joined ISIL through this method,” A.G. added.

A.G. further said that Nurali T. organizes recruits from around the world from his İstanbul office. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they join ISIL in Syria, A.G. said. http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_report-more-than-100000-fake-turkish-passports-given-to-isil_377534.html

Great article. According to this one, they're also using Thailand to travel to Indonesia to join militants there:

Within this group, there are also a handful of Uighur militants who come to the region with the deliberate intention to link up with Southeast Asian militants. Recently, an Indonesian court sentenced three men from China’s Uighur Muslim community to six years in prison on charges of conspiring with Indonesian militant Islamists: Ahmet Mahmut, Altinci Bayram and Tuzer Abdul Basit were arrested in September 2014 in Sulawesi for using fake Turkish passports. The Uighur immigrants planned to meet with Santoso, the leader of a terrorist group known as the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen, better known as Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT). - Source: http://www.fairobserver.com/region/asia_pacific/thailands-uighur-refugees-security-implications-southeast-asia-90147/

[zaphod reborn]

I am getting the impression a large stone is about to be uncovered with this.

It is very possible this woman was not aware of anything illegal going on with her supposed husband and his associates, it is starting to look to me like Thailand has been used as the Hub of something that has a strong connection to Turkey and muslims

There's no stone to be uncovered. Just waiting for RTP and the Junta to come clean that Thailand was being used as a hub for the illegal smuggling of terrorists by ISIL. Of course, being tier 3 on the TIP report means this is extremely bad news for Thailand. It also means that Thailand needs to do an investigation of its police force, immigration officials, politicians and government officials who all either feigned ignorance of the matter or who were complicit and received money from ISIL in exchange for protection. But, we know that will never happen.

9 April 2015: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports in order to travel to Turkey and then enter Syria to join ISIL, a daily reported on Thursday. According to a story in the Meydan daily, A.G., an aide of Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working for ISIL to provide militants with passports worldwide, Nurali T.'s office in İstanbul's Zeytinburnu district functions as an ISIL passport office. Each passport was sold for $200, A.G. told Meydan. More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in İstanbul, Meydan reported. A.G. claimed that most of the Uyghurs with fake passports were caught by police in Turkish airports but they were released in Turkey after their passports were seized. “The Uyghurs' release in Turkey is due to a secret [little-known] Turkish law on Uyghur Turks. More than 50,000 Uyghurs joined ISIL through this method,” A.G. added.

A.G. further said that Nurali T. organizes recruits from around the world from his İstanbul office. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they join ISIL in Syria, A.G. said. http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_report-more-than-100000-fake-turkish-passports-given-to-isil_377534.html

Total ISIS membership in Syria & Iraq, depending on which report you read, ranges between 50k to 200k, even if 200k this equates to 1in 4 are Uyghurs, which comes across as nonsense. The Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the ruling Communist Party, said in December that about 300 Chinese (read Uyghurs) are fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/11/chinese-authorities-say-muslim-uighurs-have-joined-isis/

LOL you're quoting Fox News to impeach another news source. What about the 100,000 fake Turkish passports, many of which were sent to Thailand? It sure explains why the militant suspect had a stack of them, doesn't it? What does Fox Comedy Channel say about that?

"Whether individuals are able to make the journey all the way back seems difficult, especially given the difficulty people from Xinjiang seem to have in getting passports," he added.

So I guess Fox, as your quoted story was written a month prior to the story I cited, never bothered to independently investigate how the Uighurs were overcoming the passport problem in their journey to Syria. Yeah, probably too busy hacking Kate Middleton's mobile to investigate this.

Edited September 1, 2015 by zaphod reborn

[Jai Dee]

One flame post and subsequent reply have been removed from this thread.

[arrowsdawdle]

Here's the original article from AFP who spoke to the woman in question.

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-woman-suspect-in-turkey-denies-link-to-bangkok-bom

Dead link, 404 error.

[simple1]

here's no stone to be uncovered. Just waiting for RTP and the Junta to come clean that Thailand was being used as a hub for the illegal smuggling of terrorists by ISIL. Of course, being tier 3 on the TIP report means this is extremely bad news for Thailand. It also means that Thailand needs to do an investigation of its police force, immigration officials, politicians and government officials who all either feigned ignorance of the matter or who were complicit and received money from ISIL in exchange for protection. But, we know that will never happen.

9 April 2015: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants were given more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports in order to travel to Turkey and then enter Syria to join ISIL, a daily reported on Thursday. According to a story in the Meydan daily, A.G., an aide of Nurali T., a Uyghur Turk working for ISIL to provide militants with passports worldwide, Nurali T.'s office in İstanbul's Zeytinburnu district functions as an ISIL passport office. Each passport was sold for $200, A.G. told Meydan. More than 50,000 Uyghur Turks came to Turkey with these fake passports from China via Thailand and Malaysia and entered Syria after staying a day in İstanbul, Meydan reported. A.G. claimed that most of the Uyghurs with fake passports were caught by police in Turkish airports but they were released in Turkey after their passports were seized. “The Uyghurs' release in Turkey is due to a secret [little-known] Turkish law on Uyghur Turks. More than 50,000 Uyghurs joined ISIL through this method,” A.G. added.

A.G. further said that Nurali T. organizes recruits from around the world from his İstanbul office. Militants who entered Turkey with these fake passports are hosted either in hotels or guesthouses for a day before they join ISIL in Syria, A.G. said. http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_report-more-than-100000-fake-turkish-passports-given-to-isil_377534.html

Total ISIS membership in Syria & Iraq, depending on which report you read, ranges between 50k to 200k, even if 200k this equates to 1in 4 are Uyghurs, which comes across as nonsense. The Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the ruling Communist Party, said in December that about 300 Chinese (read Uyghurs) are fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/11/chinese-authorities-say-muslim-uighurs-have-joined-isis/

LOL you're quoting Fox News to impeach another news source. What about the 100,000 fake Turkish passports, many of which were sent to Thailand? It sure explains why the militant suspect had a stack of them, doesn't it? What does Fox Comedy Channel say about that?

"Whether individuals are able to make the journey all the way back seems difficult, especially given the difficulty people from Xinjiang seem to have in getting passports," he added.

So I guess Fox, as your quoted story was written a month prior to the story I cited, never bothered to independently investigate how the Uighurs were overcoming the passport problem in their journey to Syria. Yeah, probably too busy hacking Kate Middleton's mobile to investigate this.

Fox is quoting an official PRC media outlet, I suggest out of all the interested parties in Uyghur terrorism it would be PRC who would not be underestimating Uyghur activities. There have been reports of hundreds, maybe a few thousand Uyghur alongside Daesh, no mention whatsoever of tens of thousands.

Might be a good idea to point to sites, other than repeating a new Turkish media outlet with a once off report in April this year, verifying Uyghurs having 50,000 people in Syria and Iraq; of course you cannot.

Edited September 1, 2015 by simple1

[tigermonkey]

Its a very strange set of circumstances and people keep labelling Turkey as the key. Like its a mythical Casablanca, especially seeing as there are murky politics afoot there too.

I find it difficult to believe that p!$$ed off people-smugglers would attract international police and anti-terrorist taskforce attention because they were miffed about their operations in the south being disrupted.

The foreigner caught on Saturday looks Russian. All together they look like guns for hire.

I suspect they are a cut out group. Funded by someone who has long demonstrated his ire against this government.

This is another in a long line of failed despicable attempts to take back power.

Why don't you say what you mean ? I'm sure that you want to say Thaksin did it !

[kerrysum]

Here's the original article from AFP who spoke to the woman in question.

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-woman-suspect-in-turkey-denies-link-to-bangkok-bom

Dead link, 404 error.

That's what I got also.....

[DoctorB]

Its a very strange set of circumstances and people keep labelling Turkey as the key. Like its a mythical Casablanca, especially seeing as there are murky politics afoot there too.

I find it difficult to believe that p!$$ed off people-smugglers would attract international police and anti-terrorist taskforce attention because they were miffed about their operations in the south being disrupted.

The foreigner caught on Saturday looks Russian. All together they look like guns for hire.

I suspect they are a cut out group. Funded by someone who has long demonstrated his ire against this government.

This is another in a long line of failed despicable attempts to take back power.

Nice try! But you really are stretching credibility to its limits.

All the person to whom you allude needs to do is to wait for the restoration of democracy and a free vote and he, or close associates, will attain power from the people without the need for violence or any other "despicable" form of attempt to take it back.

So far there is absolutely nothing, apart from the paranoia of the junta-huggers, to associate the Dubai bogey-man with the bombing and repeating it as a daily mantra will not make it so.

[kerrysum]

So should we be so surprised? This has been going on in Thailand for years, so what else is new?

[coulson]

Here's the original article from AFP who spoke to the woman in question.

http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-thai-woman-suspect-in-turkey-denies-link-to-bangkok-bom

Dead link, 404 error.

That's what I got also.....

http://www.bangkokpo...found-in-turkey

[Charlie Croker]

Its a very strange set of circumstances and people keep labelling Turkey as the key. Like its a mythical Casablanca, especially seeing as there are murky politics afoot there too.

I find it difficult to believe that p!$$ed off people-smugglers would attract international police and anti-terrorist taskforce attention because they were miffed about their operations in the south being disrupted.

The foreigner caught on Saturday looks Russian. All together they look like guns for hire.

I suspect they are a cut out group. Funded by someone who has long demonstrated his ire against this government.

This is another in a long line of failed despicable attempts to take back power.

Nice try! But you really are stretching credibility to its limits.

All the person to whom you allude needs to do is to wait for the restoration of democracy and a free vote and he, or close associates, will attain power from the people without the need for violence or any other "despicable" form of attempt to take it back.

So far there is absolutely nothing, apart from the paranoia of the junta-huggers, to associate the Dubai bogey-man with the bombing and repeating it as a daily mantra will not make it so.

Nothing but a history of armed and violent conflict against governments taking over from failed red shirt administrations. I mean apart from that, nothing at all.

[phuketandsee]

Bomber arrested?

http://www.thephuketnews.com/breaking-news-bangkok-bomb-suspect-arrested-53903.php

[Thai at Heart]

Bomber arrested?

http://www.thephuketnews.com/breaking-news-bangkok-bomb-suspect-arrested-53903.php

Another 3mn reward to split?