Thread: Man arrested with 26 iPhone smart phones at airport

An Australian man was arrested at Suvarnabhumi international airport on Sunday as he tried to smuggle 26 iPhone X smart phones worth an estimated one million baht into the country.


The Australian, identified as Ho Won Harvard Lee, who claimed to be a music producer in Australia reportedly said that he intended to sell the smart phones in Singapore.


He claimed that he was not aware that he had to declare the phones with customs officials for tax assessment and payment because he was awaiting to connect a flight to Singapore.


Customs officials however filed a charge of violating the Telecommunications Act and an announcement of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.


Man arrested with 26 iPhone smart phones at airport - Thai PBS English News

Originally Posted by misskit

violating the Telecommunications Act and an announcement of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.

Good luck with that. Smuggling, even (or especially) in-transit smuggling, may not be covered by Telecommuncations acts.

Ho Won Harvard Lee

Now that a good Aussie name 555

I wonder how many his friend brought through

Just looked on craigslist.

Ho Chi Crim's involved alright





Anyone fancy dobbing in a convict for a new phone?😁

Remind me why goods carried in transit are liable for customs duty in the country through which they are being carried?

I mean it's not as if they are being imported, so how can they........


Oh.

Originally Posted by Ratchaburi

Ho Won Harvard Lee

Now that a good Aussie name 555

Yer Joke innit.

I hope they execute the fuker, he was only out to rip of the punters so fook him eh.

Originally Posted by misskit

He claimed that he was not aware that he had to declare the phones with customs officials for tax assessment and payment because he was awaiting to connect a flight to Singapore

Hmmm. Tough to conduct my TDCSI role here without knowing with the lack of information.

But thats never held us back before so Im going with

Flew in from Ockeralia and stopped at the scanner after immigration with a cabin bag full of the fuckers.

Weird how they werent spotted at his departing airport.

July 2017: Flying to Siem Reap through Bangkok, connect to transfer by going up the escalator straight to the gate without clearing immigration or customs.

August 2017: Flying to Vientiane through Bangkok, told I am not allowed up the escalator and have to clear immigration and customs and check in for my connecting flight, even though I don't want to.

Now we know why. There is money to be made....

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Flew in from Ockeralia and stopped at the scanner after immigration with a cabin bag full of the fuckers.

CASE CLOSED, Detective Dill nails it again

Ho, carrying two suitcases, was about to leave to the arrival lounge at the Suvarnabhumi Airport through the “nothing to declare” aisle when officials noticed his suspicious behaviour.

They asked to X-ray Ho’s suitcases and saw the 26 mobile phones inside, finding the phones when they opened the suitcases.

Ho said he bought the phones in Australia and intended to sell them to friends in Singapore. He was on his way to Singapore and transiting through Bangkok when he was arrested.

Ho Chi Crim

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He was a Dodgy fuker then eh Dill.

Will in fairness, they only stopped him once...

Yeah, but why is it a crime under the Telecoms Act and not the Customs Act?

And well spotted Dill on the Craigslist.

Originally Posted by terry57

He was a Dodgy fuker then eh Dill

I trust you deduced that from the socks Terry

Originally Posted by Maanaam

why is it a crime under the Telecoms Act and not the Customs Act?

Bigger fine?

The officials said the iPhone series 8 had not yet received permission to be sold or used in Thailand, so possession of the device was against the law.

heres the link to a fuller article
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/deta...gnews/30327537

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Yer, and the on back wards cap.

Looks like a dodgy Em Em to me.

Sussed as fook, out the back, 1 bullet job done.

So my friend from Australia with his new iphone 8 who arrived 3 days ago is in possession of an illegal device? 5555, wait untill i tell him.

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I think he will be fine mate but if he is packin 100 of them he may not.

26 lucky Thai coppers win a new iPhone X.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

26 lucky Thai coppers win a new iPhone X.

now that is the bottom line.

Must be iPhone 8 as iPhone X haven't been released yet?

I knew a guy in the '70's who smuggled a suitcase full of watches into Nepal. The fix was in at Customs, but his guy was in the toilet when he went through. Two years in a Nepalese jail.

Originally Posted by Farang Ky Ay

Must be iPhone 8 as iPhone X haven't been released yet?

Bingo!! They are 8's.

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Bangkok Phone Expo opens on the 28th, they will be giving them out for free.

Samsung Note 8 will be sold at 30,900 Bht so that 3000 Bht of the release price on the 22 this month.