Thirty million baht worth of illegal phones and accessories seized in Bangkok

 

Picture: Sanook

 

BANGKOK: -- Metropolitan police chief Sanit Mahathavorn announced Wednesday that police had made an arrest and seized illegal and pirated phones and accessories from China stored at a depot in Pathumwan.

 

There was a total of 2,824 iPhones that had been imported illegally from China and 76,807 accessories that fell into the same category, reported Sanook.

 

Tax was not paid on the phones and parts were pirated.

 

In total the haul was worth 30 million baht.

 

Manager of the storage facility Phaisan Jan-ubon was arrested after a search warrant had earlier been filed in a Bangkok court.

 

The depot was a storage and distribution point for the phones and accessories that were believed to be on sale in the Pathumwan area.

 

Source: Sanook

 

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id love  to  know  where  all  this  stuff ends  up  after  confiscation??

15 hours ago, kannot said:

id love  to  know  where  all  this  stuff ends  up  after  confiscation??

 

Pretty sure it finds it's way back onto the street.   A small portion is probably retained for the obligatory dog and pony crushing show.

2824 phones recorded the other 4000 are now being used by some of Bangkoks finest.

Just to show you the enormous profits those guys making on that merchandises

that even after losses of many millions of baht they still continue and have

the funds to stay in the game despite the huge losses....

Real Iphones, or  clones ?

2 hours ago, mike murphy said:

Real Iphones, or  clones ?

More importantly.

Real Police or.......oh never mind.

Sorry

4 hours ago, kannot said:

id love  to  know  where  all  this  stuff ends  up  after  confiscation??

On the street again I suspect supporting the RTP's charity donations !!!

Need a new iPhone? Ask a friendly cop near you... 

Dial a friend ?

6 hours ago, kannot said:

id love  to  know  where  all  this  stuff ends  up  after  confiscation??

resold in phone shops nationwide...all owned perhaps by the confiscators?

The confiscated phones are probably burned, or sent to recycling so the state and the government can get some money out of wasting it. That´s the most probable senario.
They can also be sent back to a buyer in china, where it looks like this behaiviour regarding copy is totally legal.

2 hours ago, Get Real said:

The confiscated phones are probably burned, or sent to recycling so the state and the government can get some money out of wasting it. That´s the most probable senario.
They can also be sent back to a buyer in china, where it looks like this behaiviour regarding copy is totally legal.

Either you are sarcastic or don't know anything about Thailand. 

They don't know how to collect the normal household garbage and properly dispose it. And you're thinking they've the facility to segregate the internals of phones.

And for sure they will not have any trouble with big daddy China.

46 minutes ago, OttoPollmann said:

Either you are sarcastic or don't know anything about Thailand. 

They don't know how to collect the normal household garbage and properly dispose it. And you're thinking they've the facility to segregate the internals of phones.

And for sure they will not have any trouble with big daddy China.

Mostly sarcastic, as usual. LOL

Please also check all the mobile shops at the basement of Seacon Square Shopping Centre as a lot of fake items there. One mafia guy controls a lot of illicit and fake goods there,  who owns a mobile shop counter at the basement and whose relations has a unit  at Lumpini Ville Onnut 46 .

Edited February 16, 20179 yr by Canceraid

They always arrest the managers.  What about the people responsible?  What if the managers weren't informed?  This is every case.  Unless you are getting kickbacks, don't be a manager in Thailand

21 hours ago, kannot said:

id love  to  know  where  all  this  stuff ends  up  after  confiscation??

as you can clearly see from the OP photo - there is a large market stall just in front of the police headquarters. Great discounts - get them while you can.....

Our new best friend is making a few bob out of us by the back door, but costing a few locals

 

All this just to show the Trump brigade

 

We are clean we are clean

 

worth a couple of points on those ratings next year.

i have thai friends that own a football shirt shop, when they get raided, they buy the shirts back from the police for 50 baht each!!

during sutheps protest in silom the street protest was half flee market traders who had this sort of stuff supplied free to sell to get volume of people to attend and keep silom road blocked (also was mentioned paid police to delay the declared forced clearing set date lol and indeed on the clearing day nothing did happen, not a cop to be seen) so that gives a bit of a possible idea where this sort of stuff goes lol  ...