Cambodians accused of pretending to be monks at Thai temple
Police charge 27 Cambodians with illegal entry after ordering them to remove Buddhist robes
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Buddhist monks at Wat Talom monastery in Bangkok. (Photo: YouTube)
Thai immigration police have arrested more than two dozen Cambodian migrants at a Buddhist temple where they had allegedly been pretending to be monks to avoid being caught and deported.
The 27 Cambodian nationals entered Thailand illegally and joined the Wat Talom monastery in Bangkok while disguising themselves as Buddhist monks, according to authorities.
“We received a tip-off that the temple had several hundred monks living in a crowded space that could become a hotspot for Covid-19,” said Lt. Gen. Sompong Chingduang, chief of the immigration police.
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Police in Thailand announced Wednesday that they had arrested 78 people this month – mostly Thais – who were suspected of smuggling in more than 260 migrant workers from Myanmar and other neighboring countries.
The crackdown on suspected traffickers of migrant workers came on orders from Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha last month, amid a wave of coronavirus infections, Police Gen. Suwat Changyodsuk, the national police chief, said at a news conference. Authorities had blamed the surge in COVID-19 cases on migrants who had entered the country illegally via the kingdom’s shuttered borders.
“The operations are focused on trafficking rings – brokers and their masterminds – who smuggle illegal workers in or out. We are not focused on suppressing the illegal workers because the government has a clear policy on bringing some of them into the labor system and letting them work,” Suwat said.
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Immigration Bureau commissioner Sompong Chingduang signed the order transferring Pol Maj Jakkrapong Phermkamlang to the bureau s operations centre.
The order was signed on Jan 19. This was the same day Chinese national Changli Li, 42, was arrested in possession of millions of fake brand name spectacles at premises in the Dao Khanong area of Thon Buri by the Department of Special Investigation.
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by SaharaReporters, New York
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Immigration police chief, Lieutenant General Sompong Chingduang, disclosed this on Tuesday.
He said the arrest followed several complaints from citizens and officials of the Siam Commercial Bank and TMB Bank that there were scammers who had been impersonating as officers and managers from banks who send emails randomly to their clients.