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  • Crime News2 police officers fired for allegedly planting drugs on a woman, demanding money and sex

    2 police officers fired for allegedly planting drugs on a woman, demanding money and sex

    The Samut Prakan police chief fired 2 officers for allegedly planting methamphetamine pills on a woman and extorting her for 25,000 baht, then later demanding sex. The sacked police officers may also face criminal charges. The 34 year old woman sought help from the “Help Crime Victim Club,” claiming that the 2 police officers in Samut Prakan, a province just…

  • Crime News7 Yala police officers sentenced for bribery, sale of confiscated methamphetamines

    7 Yala police officers sentenced for bribery, sale of confiscated methamphetamines

    7 police officers in the southern province of Yala have been sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment and fined 800,000 baht, for bribing a drug dealer and selling confiscated drugs to youths in the area. Yala provincial court sentenced the officers on Wednesday. They have been named in Thai media reports as, Jirasak Nooplod, Sitthapak Chandaeng, Siroj Jaikaewthi, Amphol Ngu-tul, Narongdet…

  • Thailand NewsThailand News Today | German Embassy, More STV tourists, Thanathorn in trouble | October 27

    Thailand News Today | German Embassy, More STV tourists, Thanathorn in trouble | October 27

    Today’s latest Thai news from The Thaiger, hosted by Tim Newton with full, echoey sound! Sorry about the minor audio issues! From Bangkok to Berlin – protesters deliver letter to German Embassy Protesting students last night submitted a letter to the German Embassy, to be passed on to the German Government. The protest started around 4pm when the rally gathered…

  • Pattaya News6 face extortion charges after allegedly posing Thai immigration police officers

    6 face extortion charges after allegedly posing Thai immigration police officers

    Police have arrested 3 people and issued arrest warrants for 3 others on extortion charges after they allegedly posed immigration police officers in Rayong and visited business owners with migrant staff, asking them for money. Police say 6 men wearing immigration police uniforms visited business owners in Rayong on September 15. They allegedly asked for money from the businesses with…

  • South Thailand NewsOfficers demand 5 million baht bribe, hundreds riot – VIDEO

    Officers demand 5 million baht bribe, hundreds riot – VIDEO

    All claiming to be police officers, 3 men in Southern Thailand tried to extort a man for 5 million baht so he could avoid arrest. Somehow hundreds of villagers in Surat Thani got involved and surrounded the policeman’s Toyota Fortuner, according to Thai media. A video from Thai PBS shows villagers rocking the vehicle back and forth, and the rear…

  • Crime News6 police officers face charges of extortion, assault

    6 police officers face charges of extortion, assault

    Further to a story reported earlier in The Thaiger, things are heating up in the central province of Samut Prakan, just south of Bangkok. A surprise visit by national police chief Chakthip Chaijinda at the Klong Dan police station last week has exposed alleged acts of assault and extortion by a suspected gang of criminal policemen. The officers on duty…

  • Crime NewsArrests in Chiang Mai for “sextortion”, child porn

    Arrests in Chiang Mai for “sextortion”, child porn

    A 20 year old Thai man has been charged with extortion after police in Chiang Mai province arrested him for posing as a woman to blackmail a university student online. Acting on a warrant, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division and the Internet Crimes Against Children task force arrested Natthawut Klinhom. Police say the victim, aged 19, filed a complaint against…

  • Crime NewsPattaya police caught extorting son of senior Issan policeman

    Pattaya police caught extorting son of senior Issan policeman

    PHOTO: Daily News Four Pattaya police have been caught out trying to extort payment from a person in an e-cigarette sting. But the person they were trying to get payment from was the son of a deputy police commander in Isaan, in Thailand’s north east. 24 year old Phanuwat Suban Na Ayuthaya reported the alleged extortion to Pattaya police yesterday. He…