RELEASED: 24 Nov 2023 at 04:00
The migration authorities have actually detained 6 foreign suspects in 3 different cases including visa scams, overstaying and running prohibited cash deal services.
Pol Lt Gen Itthipol Itthisaranachai, commissioner of the Migration Bureau (IB), the other day likewise informed an interview that a few of the suspects are waiting for deportation to their home nations to deal with prosecution.
The very first case includes 4 Pakistanis who presumably dedicated visa scams. They were called as Ammad Hussain, Muhammad Yaseen, Shakeel Liaqat and Irfan Hussain.
Pol Lt Gen Itthipol stated that the IB had an undercover personnel contact Ammad Hussain to make an application for a Schengen visa. He was informed that the procedure costs EUR7,000 euros or approximately 267,000 baht.
The IB later on called the Italian embassy and discovered that the visa procedure was a scams, leading to the arrest of the 4 Pakistanis at their house in Bang Kapi district.
The 2nd case was an Italian burglary suspect called Adriano Corrado, 63, who had actually overstayed his retirement visa in Thailand. Pol Lt Gen Itthipol stated that the National Central Bureau in Rome, Italy, had actually gotten in touch with the IB’s Department of Foreign Affairs to collar a missing out on suspect who had actually been provided an arrest warrant in Italy.
In June 2012, Mr Corrado presumably burgled the home of a handicapped couple and took EUR28,000, or 1.07 million baht in money, together with other prized possessions.
Mr Corrado later on got in Thailand in February 2020 and was approved a retirement visa up until January 2023. Officers discovered he had actually resided in a home in Bang Lamung district of Chon Buri.
He was sent out to Pattaya Authorities for more legal procedures, stated Pol Lt Gen Itthipol.
The 3rd case included a Russian suspect, Nikolai Shtanko, who presumably ran an unlawful cash deal service for immigrants.
Mr Shtanko was detained in tambon Wang Prachan in Khuan Don district of Satun province. Authorities likewise discovered that he had actually overstayed his visa in Thailand and had actually been provided a Red Notification by Interpol.
From Oct 2018 to July 2020, Mr Shtanko was presumably associated with a criminal ring in Russia and ran an unlawful deal service for cash launderers. The deals were supposedly worth over 1.6 billion baht.
On The Other Hand, the Criminal Offense Suppression Department (CSD) the other day revealed the arrest of 2 Korean suspects, Park Kyungjun and Park Jongmin, for presumably running an online betting site which was based in a neighbouring nation.
They were remaining in Thailand, and their betting site supposedly sees over 6 billion baht in capital.
