Thread: Big Phuket Crime Crackdown and cleansing to take place

Five foreigners caught in anti-crime drive in Phuket

PHUKET: Five foreigners and six Thais were arrested by police from Kathu Police Station during a two-week special push against crime ordered by Bangkok, which ended on Monday (July 15).

Eakkapop Thongtub
Wednesday 17 July 2013, 10:18AM

All were arrested for drug offences during the drive. They were:

Fidelis Vaboomaronanna, 25, from Nigeria, caught with with 51 bags of crystal methamphetamine (ya ice), the biggest haul of ice in Phuket this year;

Watchakorn “O” Neungboonchu, 29, with seven bags of ya ice; Yuwapaporn Chareurat, 38, with 127 grams of ya ice; Rungsiam Hommaak, 32, with 10 pills of methamphetamine (ya ba); Sirilak “Pat” Keankonpan, 27, with 3.8 grams of ya ice; Chanchai “Chai” Chanuk, 29, with five bags of ya ice.

Kertpon “Kem” Changwad, 20, with seven bags of ya ice.

Four Burmese, named as Tong, 24, Star, 36, Selip, 36, and Ola, 27, all found in possession of small bottles containing the makings for the drink “4x100”, which includes kratom, a restricted drug.

All the suspects admitted all charges, police said.

The Phuket News
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The thing about the chickenhead's use of the future tense Is that in their terms it means the heralded intention will invariably never happen. Eventually, if some farang is so impolite as to challenge the monkey on this lack of progress he may well be told that:

1. He misunderstood.

2. It did happen but not in the way a farang can understand.

3. It's too soon to ask and they must await the report of the sub-committee that has yet to convene a working group as directed by the steering c'ttee under the judicial oversight of the National Dept for Malfeasance Enquiry set up by the Deputy Prime Minister's Office of Special Affairs reporting to the Prime Minister but the chairman of that Dept, Plopalot Porntwat, has been summoned to a special hearing of the National Constitutional Committee following a challenge from the Parliamentary Office of Judicial Enquiries., and may need to tour Europe for an extended period as determined by the Statute of Limitations or until his money runs out.

4. The problem is too complex made worse by a nasty foreign criminal gang responsible for all bad things including the current drought, fall in the Stock Market and all prostitution in Thailand.

Will they be bringing a D-9 dozer with them? To be used to take down all those illegal building projects sponsored and paid for by Bangkok Aristocracy and drug king pins.

Nothing will happen as The Gent says, just more "posturing."

its rotten to the core and nowt can be done to rectify the problems of the dungheap known as phuket

Err, the entire country is utterly bent.

What's a time share tout? ( what is actually wrong with it making it a scam)
What's a Zero Baht tour?

What's a time share tout? ( what is actually wrong with it making it a scam)
What's a Zero Baht tour?

Phuket NEWS: DSI called in to tackle taxis and raid foreign busine



PHUKET: A Department of Special Investigation (DSI) task force will arrive in Phuket next week to carry out raids and arrest illegal taxi drivers and foreign business operators found breaking the law.

The officers, expected to arrive on Thursday for a two-day campaign, will target taxi drivers at Phuket International Airport and businesses suspected of using Thai nominees.

The news follows Tourism and Sports Minister Somsak Pureesrisak's visit last Wednesday to the DSI’s headquarters in Bangkok to seek assistance in curtailing what he called “mafia gangs” operating on the island.

Minister Somsak also specifically identified Russians as a target group who hired Thais as nominees to run restaurants, souvenir shops and beach-bed rental services that had exploited tourists.

DSI chief Tarit Pengdith said he would rally his officers to take up the challenge before month’s end.

“We have been gathering information for some time. We have found that in some cases the mafia gangs have even barred ambulances from picking up patients at hotels. The patients were made to take unlicensed-taxi rides," Mr Tarit said.

Lt Col Somboon Sarasit, head of the DSI’s Bureau of Special Crime Unit 3, told the Phuket Gazette that Minister Somsak and DSI officers will begin by targeting illegal taxi drivers on July 25.

“We received complaints from foreign tourists and some embassies that many illegal taxi drivers at the airport take advantage of tourists by forcing them to use their taxis and overcharging them,” he said.

“We will also call in officers from the relevant organizations to assist in following up on illegal foreign businesses using Thai nominees. We will hold a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall on Thursday,” Col Somboon explained.

“The day after that, we will raid illegal foreign-owned businesses. However, I cannot say which area we will target first. We will reveal more information at the meeting at Provincial Hall,” he said.

Additional reporting by The Nation

So it's only Russians and 'illegal/unlicensed' taxis that are the problem? Oh, that's alright then. Should have it cleared up in no time

interesting watchin all this happening,
jesus i just paid a SKY account, Fcuk...
peanuts,popcorn,beer anyone??

Originally Posted by Necron99

What's a time share tout? ( what is actually wrong with it making it a scam)
What's a Zero Baht tour?

A zero baht tour is a, typically Russian, all inclusive package tour. All the money is paid in Russia and nothing is spent locally. All meals are included, tours etc and therefore the local economy receives little benefit.

Originally Posted by toslti

All the money is paid in Russia and nothing is spent locally. All meals are included, tours etc and therefore the local economy receives little benefit.

I disagree, the money may be paid in Russia but the tour companies, restaurants, hotels etc all employ locals and all buy supplies locally and all must be paid so while the mark-up taken by the agent selling the holiday may not get spent here (in the same way as the commission taken by companies like Expedia on a hotel booking will not) a large chunk of the holiday price will be spent locally.

What a load of bollocks. All this will result in is a bit of redistribution of envelopes.