The Thaiger
Thai police widen pink card fraud probe to 10 years
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Thai police have widened a nationwide investigation into so-called “pink card” fraud, in which foreign nationals allegedly pay brokers to be added to household registers to access state benefits, with checks now set to stretch back 10 years.
Key facts
- He pointed to a NIDA poll from July 19 that ranked investment through illegal or “grey”
- Thai police have widened a nationwide investigation into so-called “pink card”
- The Royal Thai Police is working with the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) and other agencies on three areas of concern: manipulation of civil registration records involving pink cards, false paternity registrations used to
- Pol Lt Gen Noppasin Poolsawat, a Royal Thai Police commissioner, said false paternity cases posed a long-term national security risk, while nominee arrangements threatened economic security
- businesses as the public’s top concern, followed by nominee landholding and Thai men registering as fathers of foreign children to secure nationality for them, reported The Nation.
Summary
The Royal Thai Police is working with the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) and other agencies on three areas of concern: manipulation of civil registration records involving pink cards, false paternity registrations used to obtain Thai nationality, and Thai nominees holding land or businesses for foreign nationals.
### Nominee land cases