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    Crackdown begins on illegal foreigners in Phuket, 12 arrested

    Crackdown begins on illegal foreigners in Phuket

    Crackdown begins on illegal foreigners in Phuket

    PHUKET: Twelve foreigners, including people from Australia, Finland, Indonesia, Myanmar, and the UK, were arrested yesterday (January 31) for working illegally in the island’s tourism industry, police said.

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    Friday 1 February 2013, 09:35AM


    Maj Gen Choti Chavalviwat, Commander of Phuket Provincial Police.

    Their arrests came as Maj Gen Choti Chavalviwat, Commander of Phuket Provincial Police, announced an investigation into tour agencies, massage parlous and restaurants, as well as other businesses which are foreign owned or employ many foreign staff. This was prompted by a protest on Monday in Bang Tao by Thai businesspeople, who said illegal foreign businesses were undercutting the market.

    The Department of Labour, in conjunction with Phuket Immigration and the Phuket Police, started checking companies yesterday (January 31) based on random checks or tip-offs from the public.

    The main focus will be on businesses that are foreign owned or operated, but Thai businesses that employ large numbers of foreigners will also be checked.

    Beginning the crackdown, 12 foreigners were arrested yesterday for either not having a work permit, or doing a different job to what their work permit states.

    Many were working in the tour industry as tour guides, taxi drivers or masseurs, police said. Their cases have been referred to the Phuket Provincial Court.

    “I understand that foreigners want to work in Phuket, but they have to work correctly,” Maj Gen Choti told The Phuket News.

    Mr Choti said the officials were also checking Thai shareholders in foreign-run companies. Thai people listed as shareholders might need to show they genuinely had enough money to have been able to have invested in the company.

    “The Bang Tao mob were very angry, and it is their right to be angry,” Maj Gen Choti said.

    “Russians coming to travel is fine, but if they take Thai people’s careers and livelihoods by working illegally, that is not fair to the Thai people.

    “Foreigners who live and work here have to show us their work permit if we do a check. If they have the correct permit, it is not a problem.”
    "Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction; ambition and intrigue take advantage of the credulity and inexperience of men who have no political, economic or civil knowledge. They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice."-Simón Bolívar

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    Forecast Phuket Crackdown Nabs Touts for Work Permit Breaches

    By Chutima Sidasathian
    Friday, February 1, 2013

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    As first reported in Phuketwan in early January, Phuket Labor Office begins a campaign aimed at checking that foreigners have legitimate businesses and work permits. More »

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    I did not see Russians in the list or 12. I thought it was their business that started all this in the first place.

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    From a Cambodian perspective this seems ridiculous.I think working as a tuk tuk driver would be very lucrative though.

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    Promted by a protest on Monday!! Amazing Thailand

    Not that I mind they crack down on foreigners illegalities, but fancy if their actions had been just as swift when foreigners and Ambassadors complained about Thai Jetski thugs and Thai Taxi Mafiosos not to mention Thai thugs robbers and bag-snatchers in general

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    funny how the Phuket police can be effective when they want to

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    International boycott of Pukett is the way forward. Let the Thais have it all to themselves just like Zimbarbwei who are down to their last 200 dollars

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    'About 100' Phuket Tourism, Property Businesses With Foreign Links Face Investigation - Phuket Wan

    'About 100' Phuket Tourism, Property Businesses With Foreign Links Face Investigation

    By Chutima Sidasathian
    Saturday, February 2, 2013

    PHUKET: About 100 Phuket businesses - especially in property and tourism - are likely to be targetted in an investigation over the next month, says the Director of Phuket's Department of Business Development.

    The data-accumulation process has already been underway through January, says Director Nimid Kangkajid, rejecting the notion that some kind of ''scare'' campaign is being conducted.

    People from 80 different nationalities had involvements with businesses on Phuket, said Khun Nimid, noting that those with Russian connections had been increasing most rapidly lately.

    Work permits totalled 646 for Russians, he said - 327 in Phuket City, 213 in Kathu district and 106 in Thalang.

    He said closest scrutiny was likely to be applied to about 100 businesses relating to property and to various aspects of tourism, including tours, diving, restaurants and bars.

    To put it is proportion, he said, new companies on Phuket had increased by 1370 in 2011 and 1437 in 2012.

    There were 4068 companies that had foreign partners or foreign investors who held shares of less than 50 percent and 13,615 companies with a foreign director who has authority to sign or co-sign on behalf of the company, he said.

    The Department of Business Development had assessed the Phuket database in January. Officers from Bangkok would be on Phuket in February to help carry out the detailed investigation, he said.

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    Knee jerk reaction?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
    There were 4068 companies that had foreign partners or foreign investors who held shares of less than 50 percent and 13,615 companies with a foreign director who has authority to sign or co-sign on behalf of the company, he said.
    Wonder how many have houses/property owned by the "company"? Gonna be a major "ah shit" moment for them that do.

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    businesses relating to property
    legal or illegal they are a despicable trade and the sooner these leeches are exterminated the better.

    they are quite superfluous to the procedure of finding, negotiating and buying of property or land in this country.

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