The newly appointed head of Thai Immigration had a stark warning for visa agents and their customers extending visas yesterday.
I am coming to arrest you wherever you are.
Maj-Gen Surachate Hakpan - known as Big Joke in the media - was speaking after the arrest of a Thai woman in Samrong in Bangkok.
Yupin Jantakhat, 55, was acting as a visa extension agent. She has been charged with falsifying tax documents for the purpose of seeking visa extensions for her clients.
Two Nigerians, who were not named, presented the false papers at the government immigration offices in Chaeng Wattana.
INN reported that Yupin was handling visas mostly for Indians, Pakistanis and Nigerians. (In their report they also added the Thai symbol for "etc" to that list without explaining what that meant).
Yupin was arrested in Soi Dan Samrong, North Samrong after the paper trail led to her residence there.
Maj-Gen Surachate, who only took up his new role on Monday after moving from the tourist police, said that immigration will be going after all agents and their customers nationwide involved in procuring visa extensions with fake documents.
A large Thai media presence, used to following the Maj-Gen's crime busting forays at the TPB, were in attendance yest
Til dere som bruker visa agent den tid er over nå
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