Thai Immigration celebrate two more high profile successes

[webfact]

Thai Immigration celebrate two more high profile successes

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- Thai Immigration are celebrating two more high profile successes after more cases were resolved.

 

Following Monday's arrest of an Indian man implicated in the attempted assassination of a political and love rival in his  homeland came news of two more cases.

 

Both concerned foreigners wanted abroad who were hiding out in Pattaya, reports Thairath.

 

The first was a Hungarian husband and wife - Lajos Deaki and Lajosne Deaki wanted on an Interpol "Red Notice". They had fled their homeland where they had been sentenced to 8 years each in a fraud case.

 

They had entered Thailand in July 2009 and been extending their tourist visas ever since. The latest of eight extensions was due for renewal in August.

 

They were arrested at a house in Banglamung.

 

The second case was a high profile Chinese fraudster. Zhang Qingduan, 38, entered Thailand last September on a "privilege 'visa' " of one year duration. He was arrested in North Pattaya.

 

He is wanted by the Chinese authorities in connection with a massive investment fraud worth 500 million baht that defrauded 30,000 victims in his homeland.

 

Immigration also said that they had arrested many illegal nationals from Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon in the last week.

 

Source: Thairath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-01-24

[Somtamnication]

Waiting on Thai immigration successes with allowing foreign husbands and wives married to Thais to actually stay, with the same rules and regulations we give them back at home.  

[NanLaew]

Well done. Keep up the good work.

[webfact]

More foreign ‘criminals’ found in police swoops
By THE NATION

 

Chadreshkumar Rameshbhai Patel

 

BANGKOK: -- THAILAND’S role as a haven for transnational criminals has been reconfirmed with the separate arrests in Bangkok of criminals on the run from India, Hungary and China.

 

Pol Lt General Nutthorn Prawsunthorn, commissioner of Immigration Police, said yesterday that Indian authorities and Interpol had alerted his bureau about Chadreshkumar Rameshbhai Patel, 40, the alleged leader of a gang that hired assassins to kill Pragnesh Patel, a municipal councillor from Gujarat state in India.

 

Four suspected gang members who were caught five days after the hit on January 13 confessed to Patel engaging them to carry out the attack, which the councillor survived despite being hit in the neck by a bullet. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30304751

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-01-24

 

[Get Real]

Extending their tourist visa eight time? Some criminals are lucky!

[daveAustin]

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They had entered Thailand in July 2009 and been extending their tourist visas ever since. The latest of eight extensions was due for renewal in August.

Surely immigration should be reprimanded, not recognised. They pat themselves on the back, all the while continually extending their tourist visas -- and how is that even possible and why not just overstay if you're wanted? 

When I have a genuine multi-entry O, I get immigration suspiciously rifling through my passport. Not a blot on my resume... shakes head.  

This whole thing is just weird all round. I think I'll go and lie down. 

[Briggsy]

Looks like the Chinese crim was on a Privileged Entry Visa a.k.a. Thai Elite.

[Brer Fox]

18 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Surely immigration should be reprimanded, not recognised. They pat themselves on the back, all the while continually extending their tourist visas -- and how is that even possible and why not just overstay if you're wanted? 

When I have a genuine multi-entry O, I get immigration suspiciously rifling through my passport. Not a blot on my resume... shakes head.  

This whole thing is just weird all round. I think I'll go and lie down. 

TVN should consider a special forum for Government bragging and big noting press releases. That way we could go direct to one location for our daily dose of humour and bewilderment.

[diehard60]

Pataya the land of wonderful people.

[Vegetablebottom]

2 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Waiting on Thai immigration successes with allowing foreign husbands and wives married to Thais to actually stay, with the same rules and regulations we give them back at home.  

Exactly. Great point.

[grumbleweed]

So to recap; Thai immigration celebrate doing their job

What next?

Postman ecstatic after delivering letter to correct address

national day of celebration declared after doctor prescribes correct medication

 

[Get Real]

Just now, grumbleweed said:

So to recap; Thai immigration celebrate doing their job

What next?

Postman ecstatic after delivering letter to correct address

national day of celebration declared after doctor prescribes correct medication

 

Why so sad and negative. Join the party celebrations!

[yellowboat]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

Looks like the Chinese crim was on a Privileged Entry Visa a.k.a. Thai Elite.

They did not want to blemish the brand.  It is like the Cadillac of visas, or in the Chinese guys case an Audi . 

[jacko45k]

You can extend a tourist visa 7 times?

[Sphere]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

Looks like the Chinese crim was on a Privileged Entry Visa a.k.a. Thai Elite.

 

Is he now going to be escorted out by a tight-skirted lady through fast-track immigration with buggy right up to the gate?

[Sooo Upto Me]

17 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

You can extend a tourist visa 7 times?

 

I did years ago. Bit more difficult now though.

[Thaiwrath]

The celebratory smiles in the OP photo say it all.

[Sooo Upto Me]

31 minutes ago, grumbleweed said:

So to recap; Thai immigration celebrate doing their job

What next?

Postman ecstatic after delivering letter to correct address

national day of celebration declared after doctor prescribes correct medication

 

 

Yes just get on with ur job that u getting paid for & all the Brown envelopes.

[chainarong]

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

Extending their tourist visa eight time? Some criminals are lucky!

I thought that was a bit rich, on an Interpol Red notice,   maybe they were using false PP, anyway a good end result

[Prbkk]

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

 

Ahhh, Pattaya, the bastion of piousness and morality,  I think when Trump said

to " drain the swamp " he really meant Pattaya, a truly cesspool of undesirable

and shady, unsavory people.....

 

"A sunny place for shady people" ( Somerset Maugham on Miami , but it could apply to any number of places in Thailand....Pattaya the standout)

[Cloggie]

If you are arrested, go to jail or get deported, what will happen to your house and all your belongings?

[koolkarl]

These guys are always seen in military uniforms as if they are at war.  

[Borzandy]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

entered Thailand in July 2009 and been extending their tourist visas ever since

Well done, this is only for those are thinking it's not possible

[Get Real]

48 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

You can extend a tourist visa 7 times?

Approx. same easy like spitting straight into the wind and not get wet.

[Lupatria]

1 hour ago, grumbleweed said:

So to recap; Thai immigration celebrate doing their job

What next?

Postman ecstatic after delivering letter to correct address

national day of celebration declared after doctor prescribes correct medication

 

They need any good press they can get to keep the daily mess they create at the airport out of the spotlight.

[silent]

13 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

These guys are always seen in military uniforms as if they are at war.  

Are they not?

[meatboy]

living as tourists doing extensions since 2009,looks like they WERNT on the immigration computer.yet they pat their self on the back.

 

[chrisinth]

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Surely immigration should be reprimanded, not recognised. They pat themselves on the back, all the while continually extending their tourist visas -- and how is that even possible and why not just overstay if you're wanted? 

When I have a genuine multi-entry O, I get immigration suspiciously rifling through my passport. Not a blot on my resume... shakes head.  

This whole thing is just weird all round. I think I'll go and lie down. 

Would depend on when the Interpol red was issued. If it was in 2009/10, then yes, questions should be asked.

 

If it was only issued last week then they should get credit where credit is due..........................

[bubba]

25 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

These guys are always seen in military uniforms as if they are at war.  

Do the immigration enforcement services also wear uniforms back in your home country?

[rebelplatoon]

Question remains how did they get IN in the first place? The scrutiny I get as a caretaker father must be more than what these individuals have seen. Privilege visa....haaa!