Thread: Chinese faker ran illegal businesses worth billions

THAILAND: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is hunting a Chinese man who illegally obtained Thai identification documents which he used to set up businesses with registered capital of more than B3.6 billion.

DSI director-general Korawat Panprapakorn said today (Mar 16) that investigators had a court warrant for the arrest of the man, who had used the Thai identity Apao Sae Soen.


It was part of a larger investigation. As many as 255 foreign nationals had illegally been issued Thai national identification cards in Wiang Kaen district of Chiang Rai province. One of them was Apao Sae Soen.


Apao Sae Soen is alleged to have illegally set up companies to operate businesses restricted to Thai citizens.


Pol Col Korawat said the DSI had accepted special case No 54/2021 for investigation because it involved national security.

He said Apao Sae Soen’s real name is Wen Haomiao, a Chinese national with Chinese passport number G23810848.


In China, Wen Haomiao was declared bankrupt and had his assets seized after his business collapsed.


He left China for Thailand, where he managed to illegally obtain a Thai ID card under the name of Apao Sae Soen, as recorded in a domicile registration paper in Chiang Rai’s Wiang Kaen district.


With the false Thai identity and home registration documents, he set up companies operating businesses which foreigners are not allowed to run.


The documents also enabled him to stay in Thailand and travel in and out of the kingdom.


On Feb 18, the DSI obtained a court warrant for the arrest of Wen Haomiao on charges of illegally obtaining and using a Thai identfication card and domicile registration and, as a foreigner, running businesses in Thailand without needed permission.


Wen Haomiao is a fugitive, his whereabouts unknown.


The investigation was expanded to include the Provincial Administration Department and other agencies in Wiang Kaen district.


Officials had revoked 50 other ID cards illegally issued to foreigners. Seven of them were listed as owners of businesses which were prohibited to foreigners, Pol Col Korawat said.


Apao Sae Soen was stripped off Thai nationality on June 15, 2020, a DSI source said. He had set up four companies with a combined registered capital of B3,611 million.


The four companies were: 10 Plus 1 Group, a company dealing in rice trading; Amarin GTI Ltd, a real estate company; De Yi Network Technology Ltd, a non-residential building construction firm; and, Tai Xi Development Group, a property leasing firm.

Chinese faker ran illegal businesses worth billions

Thats one sneaky chinaman. But he was assisted by some corrupt mofos no doubt

Originally Posted by beerlaodrinker

Thats one sneaky chinaman. But he was assisted by some corrupt mofos no doubt

Well it does say...

The investigation was expanded to include the Provincial Administration Department and other agencies in Wiang Kaen district.

He was bankrupt in China and went on to build up Thai businesses with registered (maybe not paid-up) capital of 3.6 billion Baht?

He should be teaching an MBA program somewhere.

Originally Posted by Shutree

He was bankrupt in China and went on to build up Thai businesses with registered (maybe not paid-up) capital of 3.6 billion Baht?

He should be teaching an MBA program somewhere.

I think it might imply he's a bit of a tealeaf.

Originally Posted by misskit

Apao Sae Soen was stripped off Thai nationality on June 15, 2020, a DSI source said

how can he be stripped of a nationality that he never had?

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

how can he be stripped of a nationality that he never had?

I think the implication is not that he had fake documents, but that he had been given a bona fide identity illegally. Don't you?