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Giant passport advert sparks new checks on visitors' IDs
Post Reporters, Published on 22/07/2024
» A controversial Chinese-language billboard advertising multinational passport and citizenship application services was ordered removed on Monday and the legality of the sign and the business itself are under investigation.
Russian arrested in Bangkok for passport forgery
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 11/07/2024
» Immigration police have arrested a Russian man accused of heading a gang that sold fake passports in Thailand, earning at least 30 million baht from the customers they deceived.
Fake passport maker with ties to China arrested
Online Reporters, Published on 08/06/2024
» A suspected scammer who deceived foreign victims into believing he could produce fake Thai passports was arrested on Saturday as part of a nationwide crackdown on criminals funded by entities in China.
Chinese passport forger arrested in Bangkok
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 29/05/2024
» The leader of a passport forgery gang who fled to Thailand to escape capture in his home country of China has been arrested in Sathon district of Bangkok, police say.
20 Myanmar workers caught with fake entry stamps in passports
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 29/10/2023
» SONGKHLA: Twenty Myanmar migrant workers - 16 men and four women - were arrested in Hat Yai district on Saturday for illegal entry after fake entry stamps from the Suvarnabhumi airport immigration office were found in their passports.
Officials charged with extortion, freeing Chinese suspect
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/01/2023
» Fourteen police and officials of the Department of Special Investigation have been charged with demanding millions of baht in exchange for freeing a Chinese suspect from a former consul-general's home in Bangkok.
Immigration ramps up checks on foreigners
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/11/2022
» The Immigration Bureau (IB) is tightening up security across all international airports in the country ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Summit, which takes place later this week.
Bureau nets wanted S Korean fraudster
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/12/2019
» Immigration has arrested a South Korean man wanted in connection with fraud charges relating to a pyramid scam which saw more than 5,000 victims cheated out of more than 10 billion baht.
Police net 4 foreign fraud suspects
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/10/2019
» Four foreign criminal suspects connected to four separate cases of fraud, forgery and human trafficking have been arrested in an Immigration Bureau crackdown.
3 arrested in blitz on foreign cons
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/06/2019
» Three alleged transnational criminals, including a Chinese man accused of being involved in an illegal online gambling operation worth over 2 billion baht, have been apprehended in a police crackdown on criminals using Thailand to evade arrest in their own countries.