Russian Penis Enlargement Gel Smuggling Ring Busted Open in Pattaya
Eight Pattaya Locations Raided.
At midday on June 13 the Trans-National Crime Coordination Division of Pattaya police station received information about several websites being used to smuggle and distribute illegal products in and out of a number of locations around Pattaya City.
Raid teams were immediately organised.
At the first location, a house at 16/23 in Soi Maab Yai Lia (Soi Lablae) M. 5, Pattaya, the owner Mrs Napat Vasilneko, a Russian national by marriage, was presented with a search warrant. There officers discovered two-thousand boxes of Titan Gel, a penis enlargement product. Import and other financial documents were also seized.
The second location was a commercial building number 202/174 Rattakanorn Village Project, 25 Panied Chang, Central Pattaya. The building was posing as the Plus Pattaya Language School but officers discovered a packaging and distribution operation. Three men and one woman were busy preparing orders of Titan Gel, energy boosting products, slimming products and teeth whitening paste. One area had many orders boxed and ready to go.
A third location, this time posing as N.A Services (Thailand) Co., Ltd 202/132 Rattakanorn Village Project, 25 Panied Chang, Central Pattaya, was raided. This unit was registered as a Visa and Work Permit Agency. Officers interrupted the owners, Ms Janjira (48) and Ms Kalaya (35) and two others working on packaging and distributing products. They claim they were working for another distribution company but refused to say who. Documents and products were seized.
Another five locations along Soi Pornprapanimitr 16 were searched. Each were three-story buildings that housed between thirty and forty staff, with supervisors. All of them were processing online and telephone orders. Altogether there were over two-hundred employees earning 12,000 baht per month at these five locations.
During questioning Mrs. Napat Vasilenko admitted that she controlled all the staff who were taking orders that were then forwarded to Hendel Pro Co., Ltd. at 300/18 M. 5 Nakluea, Banglamung and Lead Partner Co., Ltd. 202/132 in Rattakanorn Village Project, 25 Panied Chang, Central Pattaya. The second address is the same unit officers were already searching. (third location)
It has been discovered that the websites are registered and owned in Russia and were set up to sell, and export, illegal products to Thailand from Russia. In total officers have seized penis enlargement gel, slimming pills, energy boosting powders and teeth whitening products worth over 50 million baht.
Officers calculate, from the paperwork they have confiscated, that illegal transactions worth over 100 million baht a month have been processed and distributed through these locations.
At this stage nobody has been charged but the premises and all of the contents have been impounded pending further investigations.
Sources reveal the list of charges likely to be imposed will include tax evasion, distributing illegal products and ‘not displaying Thai labels.’
Officials are expecting some stiff consequences.
Russian Penis Gel Smuggling Ring Busted Open at Eight Locations