[Jeremy]

holy shit.

Caught & Extorted for an Illegal Thai Visa Stamp (True Story)

My friend had been getting visa stamps through a local visa run company for two or so years. He’d give them the passport and get it back after 48 hours or so. Easy.

But then the person running the visas to the border got caught by local police. To save himself and bargain his way out of it, he gave up the information of his foreign clients.

Now, this was gold dust for the police. They now had a bunch of “farangs”, presumably some of which had some money in the bank. caught red-handed with illegal visa stamps.

One day, two policeman visited my friend at work and requested that he go get his passport and accompany them for some lunch.

At lunch, they took his passport and said that to avoid being arrested he would have to pay them 300,000 Baht to destroy the passport and evidence of the dodgy visa.

He managed to negotiate the price down to 200k. Two other guys he knew weren’t so lucky; they got banged up and readied for a court hearing.

To their credit, it seems they did destroy the passport, or sell it maybe.

My friend moved away from the island though, as he knew that he’d forever be in their debt. They could always come back for more cash, if they needed it.

He called his embassy and said he’d misplaced his passport. They issued a new one and that’s where the story ends.

[Marie]

fucking Thai police, worse than the criminals…

[Jose]

Wait, so why did the police insist on destroying or “selling” a foreign guy’s passport? That literally the property of a foreign government.

[Christian]

$6,000 to look the other way on a fake visa stamp? Is that the going rate these days?

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