CHONBURI: -- Thai Immigration officials plan to build an online information network that will collect arrest warrants from around the world in hopes of nabbing criminals hiding out in the Pattaya area.
At a meeting at Immigration Division 3, Col. Athiwit Kamolrat, head of the Chonburi Immigration Office, said immigration police are working with the Suppression of Human and Child Trafficking, and Youth and Women’s Protection divisions of the Royal Thai Police to tighten the noose on human traffickers, pedophiles and international fugitives that often use Pattaya as a base or hideout.
He said officials are currently closely monitoring Europeans from France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom; Asians from Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and South Korea; as well as those from Russia and the United States for whether they have entered Thailand legally, have obeyed the law and are not hiding from authorities at home.
To boost their efforts, Athiwit said the Pattaya Immigration Office will take the lead in setting up a “transitional crimes information center” which will collect arrest warrants from around the global as well as extradition requests received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Pattaya is the lead area for the project, he said, as it is often a base for illegal foreign operations and attracts gangs of human traffickers and those seeking to work in prostitution.
-- Pattaya Mail 2010-02-16
Immigration to nab criminals hiding in Pattaya...
Immigration to nab criminals hiding in Pattaya...
I think they need to do this in the entire country, not just Pattaya, and for all arrest warrants (human and child trafficking is a good place to start though)...
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
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Immigration to nab criminals hiding in Pattaya
It's just a shame the countries of origin themselves can't get their acts together. Still, Pattaya is as good a place as any to make a start. Good luck to the Police and Immigration in their efforts.
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Same old story again and again isn't it?
Arrest a guy who sells a little marijuhana to his mates and call him a FOREIGN RING LEADER. (Emphasize the "foreign").
Good press.
Arrest a pedophile: Worldwide headlines guaranteed.
But allow successful wealthy criminals to go on with their business since they are the goose that lay golden eggs for everyone!
Arrest a guy who sells a little marijuhana to his mates and call him a FOREIGN RING LEADER. (Emphasize the "foreign").
Good press.
Arrest a pedophile: Worldwide headlines guaranteed.
But allow successful wealthy criminals to go on with their business since they are the goose that lay golden eggs for everyone!
We are all living in 'the good old days' of the future.
If they did this properly then there would only be only be 40% of the residents left that there are here now, criminal's paradise. Maybe they don't bother at the Europe end to much as they probably think "Good riddance to the garbage."
Being the biggest mafia here, the police tolerate it but only in order to milk it for all it's worth with the occasional window dressing exersize like this.
Being the biggest mafia here, the police tolerate it but only in order to milk it for all it's worth with the occasional window dressing exersize like this.
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Strange how some cases get so much attention and action from the authorities!!!!
Willis Willis will finally get some of his $1 million lottery jackpot.
On Tuesday, state District Judge Bob Perkins signed an order restoring to the Grand Prairie man $395,000 seized from the bank account of a store clerk accused of stealing the winning ticket.
About $365,000 of the cash restored to Willis was seized by Travis County prosecutors from bank accounts opened by the store clerk, Pankaj Joshi. The other $30,000 was recovered from people in Dallas to whom Joshi had given money.
Authorities believe Joshi took the ticket from Willis, told him it was not a winner and cashed the ticket himself. He then returned to his native Nepal.
The Nepalese government has frozen an additional bank account connected to Joshi there, said Patty Robertson, a Travis County assistant district attorney. Sean Breen, Willis' Austin-based attorney, said the account is believed to hold around $300,000.
Prosecutors are working with the U.S. State Department to return to the money to Travis County. However, because a foreign government is involved, the process is complicated, Robertson said.
"I really don't have a timetable on when, or if, that will happen," she said.
About $50,000 of the winnings probably won't be recovered because Joshi withdrew it in cash, Breen said.
Joshi, 25, who was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, is charged in Travis County with fraud and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. His bond is set at $10 million.
Authorities have gone to great lengths to locate him. Robertson said. They have contacted his parents and notified the Nepal Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Willis Willis will finally get some of his $1 million lottery jackpot.
On Tuesday, state District Judge Bob Perkins signed an order restoring to the Grand Prairie man $395,000 seized from the bank account of a store clerk accused of stealing the winning ticket.
About $365,000 of the cash restored to Willis was seized by Travis County prosecutors from bank accounts opened by the store clerk, Pankaj Joshi. The other $30,000 was recovered from people in Dallas to whom Joshi had given money.
Authorities believe Joshi took the ticket from Willis, told him it was not a winner and cashed the ticket himself. He then returned to his native Nepal.
The Nepalese government has frozen an additional bank account connected to Joshi there, said Patty Robertson, a Travis County assistant district attorney. Sean Breen, Willis' Austin-based attorney, said the account is believed to hold around $300,000.
Prosecutors are working with the U.S. State Department to return to the money to Travis County. However, because a foreign government is involved, the process is complicated, Robertson said.
"I really don't have a timetable on when, or if, that will happen," she said.
About $50,000 of the winnings probably won't be recovered because Joshi withdrew it in cash, Breen said.
Joshi, 25, who was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, is charged in Travis County with fraud and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. His bond is set at $10 million.
Authorities have gone to great lengths to locate him. Robertson said. They have contacted his parents and notified the Nepal Embassy in Washington, D.C.