PUBLISHED: 8 September 2023 at 4:00 p.m.
The Immigration Bureau ( IB ) has met with its Chinese counterpart in China to discuss potential screening measures for Chinese nationals involved in dubious enterprises that attempt to flee to Thailand.
This year, Yang Shanwei, the deputy chief of the Public Security Department, and IB director Pol Lt Gen Pakphumpipat Sajjaphan met in Xian, Shaanxi state.
Four weeks of talks that ended yesterday were held to ask for bilateral cooperation in preventing Foreign thieves from using airports and eastward border checkpoints to flee to Thailand, as well as to find those who have Chinese courts issued arrest warrants. Measures to stop call center fraud, kidnapping situations, and other Chinese gang-related acts were also discussed, according to the IB.
However, the president of the Help Crime Victims Club, attorney Atchariya Reuangrattanapong, yesterday petitioned the Department of Special Investigation to look into Chinese legal organizations involved in money laundering, call-center frauds, online gaming, and forging tax receipts in Thailand.
According to Mr. Atchariya, Thai nominations for Chinese and Taiwanese businessmen had registered 10 companies. The businesses assert that they use traditions gates in Bangkok’s Klong Toey Port, Laem Chabang Port in Chon Buri, Nakhon Phanom, and Mukdahan to buy goods from China. He claimed that the companies were laundering money made by dubious companies for 10 billion baht.