Criminals’ Paradise Thailand: Become A Bounty Hunter
Be a good citizen. Render a service to your government. Show some gratitude for that foreign passport you’re holding while living in Thailand - the Thailand it is to say that draws quite some questionable characters to its shores.
Thailand deports roughly one foreigner a day, many of them criminals. And for many a reward would have been paid - it could be yours. Become a bounty hunter. Make a living working for a good cause. Seriously. There are people out there doing right that.
Imagine you’d gotten hold of Victor Bout, the meanwhile already legendary Russian arms dealer now kept at Klong Prem prison. Or suspected regional al-Qaida supremo Hambali who was caught in Ayutthaya in 2003. Or “swirly-faced” pedophile Christopher Neil who got the world’s attention with his mug shot taken at Suvarnabhumi immigration.
Back then even Pol Pot was crossing regularly into Thailand. He needed better hospital care - which he and his leading brothers in arms got in Bangkok.
But those are the big fish. According to foreign liaison officers working at Western embassies in Bangkok there are hundreds and hundreds of smaller and less smaller time criminals residing in Thailand.
Many are bail jumpers, others bank robbers, some pedophiles, others again tax or financial delinquents, money launderers or drug smugglers - quite a few even rapists and murderers...
Criminals’ Paradise Thailand: Become A Bounty Hunter