Graft-busting officials to probe cash handouts by tourists at Sadao immigration office

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Graft-busting officials to probe cash handouts by tourists at Sadao immigration office

By ThaiPBS

 

 

SADAO: -- Officials of the government’s anti-corruption commission will travel to Sadao district of Songkhla province to investigate alleged bribe taking by immigration officials.

 

The move by the graft-busting panel followed complaints by Malaysian tourists that they were still required to pay a small amount of two ringgits each to the immigration office in Sadao to expedite their retry to Thailand despite the fact that six immigration officials, including a police lieutenant-colonel, had been removed from the Sadao immigration office.

 

Immigration officials at the border checkpoint have insisted that they did not demand any cash handout which was called “Sin Namjai” from Malaysian tourists.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/graft-busting-officials-probe-cash-handouts-tourists-sadao-immigration-office/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-07-10

[Moonmoon]

I swear to God I have been commenting on this Sadao immigration bribe for ages, they finally heard me!!! 

[badlad]

what about the 1000baht charge started this year for immigration police to visit your house in connection with a visa extension and no receipt given

 

[saminoz]

I love the way they try to turn the corruption angle around in the headline!  

From Immigration demanding bribes to "tourists' cash handouts"!

Only in Thailand.

[Alanmel]

What about the 200 baht for farang. Early this year (for minibus) it was moved from each passport straight to brown envelope. 

[robsamui]

I've been back and forth across that border over 100 times now. There's never once been any hassles at Pedang Besar, just 12 km away. But every time at Sadao they are on the make. Rotten to the core.

[lazygourmet]

Not only alien idiots like us are reading ThaiVisa and the two hundred bahts in the passport, while passing Sadao, has been mentioned on this website for ages. 

Now, there is a new breed of immigration officers. Corruption will still exist but envelopes will be thicker!