Thaise id-kaart nu makkelijk te verkrijgen voor Farangs?

[marinusmali]

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/2 ... foreigners

Watchdog probes scam issuing fake ids to foreigners
Published: 3/04/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

State officials in two Kanchanaburi districts are under scrutiny after a watchdog uncovered a scam in which fake Thai ID cards have been issued to local foreigners.


WHO IS HE?: Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission secretary-general Ampol Wongsiri talks to Nepalese immigrant Aman about his ID card issued at Thong Pha Phum district, Kanchanaburi.PHOTO: KING-OUA LAOHONG

The commission in charge of fighting corruption in the public sector has found foreigners, mainly Nepalese, with fake Thai ID cards in Kanchanaburi's Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts.

State officers are suspected of being involved in the scam.

The Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) estimated that up to 85% of people living in the two border districts between Thailand and Burma are foreign nationals, mainly Nepalese, who managed to secure fake Thai ID cards.

PACC secretary-general Ampol Wongsiri said officials in the districts are suspected of being involved in a network that secures the bogus IDs for foreigners.

The PACC is investigating after it stumbled upon a case of a Nepalese man named Aman who happened to have a Thai ID card in Thong Pha Phum district on Wednesday.

Mr Aman was identified on his ID card as Tui Kuljarukit, whose address is 72 Moo 3 village in tambon Tha Kanun in Thong Pha Phum district.

Mr Aman, who cannot read Thai, conceded he did not know his given Thai name.

Both the name and household registration number were given to him by local officials, he said.

Checks of addresses in the area found there was no house numbered 72 on the stated road.

Documents used to apply for Mr Tui's ID card were endorsed by Kan Hongsawadi, headman of Moo 3 village, and his assistant Arunee Mahankirati.

The PACC said Mr Aman admitted he was born in Kathmandu and came to Thailand four years ago as a tourist via Burma. He had worked as a tailor in Bangkok's Silom area and went to Thong Pha Phum for the sole purpose of securing a Thai national ID card.

He refused to reveal how he obtained the ID cards, however.

Prasuth Wichapaibul, a member of Tha Kanun tambon administration administration, said he had not seen Mr Aman before.

Mr Ampol said the office found that foreigners applying for the ID cards pay 120,000-150,000 baht to travel to Thailand as tourists and then pay a further 20,000 baht or more for the cards. He believed officials at many levels were involved.

"In Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts [of Kanchanaburi], we may have less than 15% of Thai nationals at present.

"The rest are foreigners who managed to get Thai ID cards unlawfully," Mr Ampol said.

A source at the Thong Pha Phum district office said about 30 Nepalese people had come to Thong Pha Phum to pick up ID cards.

Many Nepalese people had settled in the district over the last 70 years, when they were taken there as prisoners by Japanese soldiers during World War II

[prajak]

Als een Nepalees al door de mand valt, iemand met uiterlijke kenmerken die heel Aziatisch zijn, hoe moeten wij dan wel niet door de mand vallen ? Bleekscheten, langneuzen, dikbuiken, blondkoppen, langeinden, nou, dat wordt een groot succes ! Ik denk dat men de bezem haalt door zakkenvullende officials (alleen de bezem, men spaart hier immers de kool en de geit) en die arme Nepalezen gaan de grens over.....

[pong]

de mensen die het meest tuk zijn op die ID-cards nu met chip!, zijn de diverse bergstammen en de illegale Birmezen-daarvan zijn er 100.000en, zo niet miljoenen in Thaild. En ieder weet toch dat elke Thaise overheidsdienaar vindt dat ie echt veels te weinig beurt en dus wel open staat voor... En dat iedereen die wel interesse in z'n kaart heeft precies hetzelfde, maar dan als koper denkt....

[prajak]

Miljoenen Birmezen lijkt me wat veel. Ik denk dat het ook geen 100.000 is. Maar er zijn veel Birmezen die statenloos zijn geworden na de laatste grote grenscorrectie. Toen werd door Thailand Birmees gebied afgestaan, teruggegeven, en de mensen die in die gebieden wonen "zagen" de grens over hen heen gaan en werden ineens statenloos. Voor Birma waren ze Thais, voor Thailand waren het Birmezen. Er trokken er veel naar Thailand en kregen een aparte status, "displaced Birmese". Al wie later kwam heeft geen enkele status. Deze zaak is door Thailand niet chique behandeld.