Bangkok, Immigration Bureau arrested 19 Bangladeshis for using fake stamps and stamps. and illegally escaped into the country' to work in Malaysia Pol. Maj. Gen. Phanthana Nuchanart, Deputy Commander of Immigration Bureau, said Narathiwat Provincial Immigration Bureau Nineteen Bangladeshis were arrested after receiving a report from the public that they had seen someone resembling an alien. Located in the area inside Taba Market, Jae He Subdistrict, Tak Bai District, Narathiwat Province, so he went to inspect and saw 1 foreigner in front of a commercial building. When the officer asks to check the alien's identification document passport or a document used in place of a passport The foreign man stated that his passport was in the commercial building and that there were still foreigners inside the commercial building. The arresting officers then went to inspect and found 18 more foreigners inside. As a result of checking the passports of all 19 people, they were all Bangladeshi passports. It was found that there were inbound stamps from the immigration checkpoint dated 8 JAN 2024, 15 volumes, with the date 9 JAN 2024, 2 volumes, and it was also found that all 19 volumes of visa patches were of the wrong nature. normal Therefore, we checked with the Immigration Information Technology system. The results of the inspection did not show any information regarding entry into the Kingdom. Upon questioning, all 19 Bangladeshis admitted that they had traveled from Bangladesh and were residing in Cambodia. There are Bangladeshis living in Cambodia helping to support the accommodation. Including taking their passports to have the Thai entry stamp stamped on them. and returned them before taking them illegally across the border to Thailand to travel to Malaysia, but were arrested first. By paying the travel expenses including the cost of stamping the entry into Thailand to the broker, all in Bangladesh, in the amount of 400,000 - 500,000 taka per person, or approximately 145,000 baht. The arresting officers then reported the charges and arrested them and took them to Tak Bai Police Station investigators for prosecution according to the said charges. In this regard, Narathiwat Provincial Immigration and Tak Bai Police Station will jointly investigate and expand the results to find culprits in the overall picture of the Bangladeshi smuggling network. Movement began to be found since the beginning of 2023, with the direction of smuggling coming from Cambodia. Through natural channels in the area of ??Sa Kaeo Province in early 2023, it is illegal travel by plane. and a processing fee was collected from Bangladeshis who illegally Quite high, hundreds of thousands of baht Before the said movement there was a change in the method of stealth. from flying Going to travel by car In the process of moving foreigners in streams from the Cambodian border. Entered the Bangkok metropolitan area and moved to the southern area. The tendency of the participants to commit crimes is still found to be committed continuously. And there has been a change in plans for attacks and modes of movement. Lately, it has been discovered that it is a forgery. Immigration officers' stamps and forged visa plates to deceive officials in traveling to Malaysia. Source: Thai News Agency